SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The jury has been selected for the trial of a Sangamon County man indicted in connection with a fatal DUI crash that occurred on Interstate 55 on November 8. 

Shane Woods is currently being held without bond at the Sangamon County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday morning for the opening statements.

On Nov. 8, four vehicles were involved in a crash that happened in the southbound lane of I-55 around milepost 89. A truck hit two passenger cars and then overturned. A truck-tractor pulling a trailer drove through the crash scene right after the impact and was damaged.

Two drivers and a passenger were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. One driver, 35-year-old Lauren Wegner of Skokie, was pronounced dead on the scene.

According to the Sangamon County State's Attorney, after the Illinois State Police finished the investigation into the deadly crash, there was evidence found that Woods intended to drive the wrong way on the highway and crash into a car.

Woods also pleaded guilty in September to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the January 6 U.S. Capitol breach. 

He was set to be sentenced for that offense on Jan. 13, 2023. 

Woods was part of a large crowd of protesters who gathered on the lower west terrace in the northwest corner of the U.S. Capitol building, prosecutors said in a press release. The release said a U.S. Capitol Police officer was sprayed with bear mace, which hurt her vision, and was tripped and pushed to the ground by Woods as as she tried to pursue the person who sprayed her.

Prosecutors said Woods also attacked a cameraman in the news media staging area by running into and tackling him, causing him to drop his camera. Members of the media had been forced to flee as people stormed past metal barricades on the U.S. Capitol grounds.

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