Person stabbed on CTA Red Line train
Service was disrupted by the stabbing near the Chicago Avenue station on the Near North Side. Jermont Terry reports.
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Service was disrupted by the stabbing near the Chicago Avenue station on the Near North Side. Jermont Terry reports.
Police used a Taser on the suspect while taking him into custody.
Detectives were seen investigating a house near 147th and Cicero in Midlothian. Some reported two young people, possibly 17 or 18 years old, were shot and stabbed during a birthday party.
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Police said, around 9:40 a.m., a 22-year-old man got into a fight on a CTA bus in the 2500 block of South Ashland Avenue.
Police say the 22-year-old victim got into a fight with another passenger on the No. 9 Ashland bus near Cermak Road.
Police said, shortly after midnight, officers responded to Butch McGuires, at 20 W Division St, where a 27-year-old man had suffered a cut to his neck.
The man who was holding the knife was taken into custody, and charges were pending late Sunday.
The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition with a stab wound to the back.
No one was in custody late Tuesday.
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