Cops release photos of Red Line stabbing suspect

CHICAGO — Mass Transit detectives have launched CTA surveillance photographs of a person they consider is liable for stabbing a Crimson Line passenger on the North Facet. They’ve additionally linked the identical man to a different violent assault on the Crimson Line final month.

Round 1:10 p.m. on Monday, September 9, the 37-year-old sufferer acquired into an argument with one other passenger as they rode the northbound practice close to Wilson, Chicago police mentioned. The argument turned bodily, and the opposite man, seen in these pictures, pulled out a knife and stabbed the sufferer a number of instances, based on CPD.

The sufferer exited the practice at Wilson and collapsed in a girls’s restroom on the Riviera Theater, 4746 North Racine, the place he works. Police and EMS discovered him there.

In the meantime, the assailant, who had a bandage wrapped round his proper hand, additionally fled from the Wilson station. CTA safety cameras reportedly recorded him dropping a knife and choosing it again up as he fled east on Wilson Avenue.

The identical man was concerned in a battery on the Fullerton Crimson Line station on August 1, police mentioned, however they didn’t launch another particulars in regards to the earlier incident.

CPD mentioned the suspect is between 20 and 35, 6 toes or 6’1″ tall, and 200 to 215 kilos. He wore the blue hat and inexperienced hoodie throughout the stabbing, police mentioned. 

You possibly can attain Mass Transit detectives at 312-744-8261.

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