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Other drivers for the same cab company say they fear for their safety. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
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Other drivers for the same cab company say they fear for their safety. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
The driver, a 41-year-old man, was providing a ride to an unidentified woman when she became angry and started to physically attack him, police said.
He was identified as the offender who, on Nov. 19, around 7:45 p.m., stabbed and seriously injured the victim in the 1500 block of North Clybourn Avenue.
One of the offenders then punched and kicked the victim as he fell to the ground.
Chicago police said around 3:30 a.m., the man was sitting on the bench on the platform, in the 100 block of North Clark Street, when an unknown man pulled out a knife and attacked him.
The victim suffered a cut to the left abdomen and was taken to Northwestern Hospital in good condition.
The woman, 44, was taken by the Chicago Fire Department to Mt. Sinai Hospital in serious condition with a stab wound to the head. The man, 42, was taken by CFD to Christ Hospital in fair condition with stab wounds to the hands.
Chicago police said a car was traveling northbound when it was struck by another vehicle traveling southbound – causing the first car to flip.
Police say the two were in an argument with a known male offender around 12:13 a.m., in the 4700 block of South Springfield Avenue, when he pulled a knife and stabbed the victims.
Benigno Ramirez-Moreno, 39, of Chicago, was placed into custody for attempted murder.
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The victim drove himself to Rush University Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.
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Police say two men were arguing when one of them swung a sharp object and stabbed the other in the arm before fleeing the scene.
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Police said the 21-year-old then stabbed the other woman in the head and arm with something sharp.
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Prosecutors said Joseph Czuba, 71, wanted the victims to move out of the home they rented from him, and believed he and his wife "were in danger," because he feared the woman he stabbed "was going to call over her Palestinian friends or family to harm them."
The man stabbed the woman in the chest, the right leg and the left leg before fleeing southbound on Milwaukee.
According to the Will County Sheriff's Office, the two victims were targeted because they are Muslim and because of the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and Israel.
Joseph Czuba has been charged with one count each of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery, and two counts of hate crime.
The woman called 911 and said she was being attacked by her landlord.
The woman called 911 and said she was being attacked by her landlord.
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