Woman charged with attacking 4 people at CTA bus stop on West Side of Chicago
A woman has been charged with attacking four people at a CTA bus stop in the Lawndale neighborhood, including a woman she allegedly slashed with a broken beer bottle after threatening that woman's mother.
Diamond Miller, 37, of Chicago, has been charged with three felony counts of aggravated battery and one felony count of aggravated assault of a person age 60 or older.
Cook County prosecutors said a 35-year-old man was riding a CTA bus on the #53/Pulaski route near Pulaski and Cermak roads around 12:15 p.m. Sunday, and was talking on the phone with his wife, when he asked Miller to be quiet because she was making too much noise for him to hear his wife.
Miller then hit the man in the face, causing him pain and dizziness, and the bus driver told Miller to get off the bus at the Cermak Road stop, and called for medical assistance.
While at the bus stop, Miller approached a woman and her friend at the bus shelter a couple minutes later, and started yelling at them to give her space, prosecutors said. After the woman and her friend started walking away, Miller came up to the woman from behind and hit her in the face with a bag of ice.
That victim called 911, and a few minutes later, a 54-year-old woman and her 74-year-old mother, who were on their way to the North RIverside Mall in the western suburbs, approached the same bus shelter, when Miller began yelling at them and accusing them of following her, according to police and prosecutors.
The mother and daughter walked away, but Miller ran up to them, and fearing Miller was attacking her mother who uses a walker, the daughter tried to protect her mother. Prosecutors said Miller hit the daughter in the face with a broken bottle, causing cuts to her face and lip that later required four stitches.
When police arrived about 10 minutes later, witnesses and the victims identified Miller as the person responsible for the attack, and she was arrested at the scene.
Miller was scheduled to appear at a detention hearing on Wednesday, but was in the hospital, so her detention hearing has been rescheduled for Friday.