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Police: UI wrestler killed on I-57 may have been hit by 3 vehicles

RANTOUL — State police say a University of Illinois wrestler who was killed on Interstate 57 last week after an accident may have been hit by three vehicles.

Trooper Tracy Lillard said Francis Edelen, 21, was a driver of one of two vehicles involved in a crash March 21 in the southbound lanes of I-57 at milepost 253.5, about 3 miles north of Rantoul, and walked away from the scene for an unknown reason. He was about two-tenths of a mile south of the crash site when he was struck and killed by an unknown vehicle or vehicles in the right lane of traffic.