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Lestina is charged with murder and attempted murder in a Yorkville crash.
Jacob T. Lestina, 21, of Oswego, is charged in Yorkville, in Kendall County, with murder and attempted murder, plus failure to report and aggravated battery, after a crash that killed Victor M. Hernandez Medina, 23, of Sandwich, and injured a second adult. The counts are accusations only.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Murder and attempted-murder charges are accusations. A police narrative is not a conviction. As of Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, reporting, Lestina, 21, of Oswego, Illinois, is charged with murder and attempted murder, and also with failure to report an accident involving personal injury or death and aggravated battery, after an allegedly intentional crash in Yorkville. Police say the crash killed Victor M. Hernandez Medina, 23, of Sandwich, and injured a second adult.
Police said a meeting was arranged for before 5:15 p.m. Sunday, the weekend before that Tuesday reporting, in a parking lot in the 300 block of East Veterans Parkway in Yorkville, for a marijuana transaction. They said a brief altercation followed, that Lestina drove away, and that he then returned and crashed into the two victims on multiple attempts. That sequence is the complaint narrative behind the charges. It is not a finding that the crash was intentional, and it is not a finding that a drug transaction occurred. The second adult who was injured is not named in the facts the reporting uses.
Lestina was arrested in Oswego and was held at the Kendall County Jail. As of the Tuesday, Sept. 22 ABC7 Chicago reporting, he was due in court Wednesday. A court date is process. It is not a plea, and it is not a verdict. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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