RUMMANA HUSSAIN, Criminal Courts Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times

A teenager who slammed into a 911 police dispatcher’s car and killed her as he drunkenly tried to elude police was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to murder.

Marquis Harrison admitted he was drunk on vodka and high on marijuana and ecstasy when he drove a stolen Range Rover and crashed into 42-year-old Marciea Adkins, who was driving home after her shift before the July 2011 wreck.

As police pursued him to question him about running a red light, Harrison ran a stop sign at Armitage and Hoyne avenues and slammed the SUV into Adkins’ car, causing it to careen into a fire hydrant, authorities said.

Preliminary tests showed that Harrison’s blood-alcohol level was .186 – more than twice the .08 legal limit – following his arrest, Cook County prosecutors said at the time.

Harrison, now 18, was an honors student, basketball player and quarterback of the football team at Urban Prep Charter Academy’s East Garfield Park campus, according to his mother, Lindetta McGlory.

Harrison, of the 200 block of South Lotus Avenue, allegedly admitted to a police officer he got “drunk and high” at a party before his deadly joyride.

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