It has been a violent week for passengers on CTA trains – with attacks and armed robberies having happened on two consecutive nights.
along the Dan Ryan Expressway. But the victim did not find a police officer until the train pulled into the Roosevelt station four miles to the north.Mimi Sarne was also attacked recently, on a Red Line subway platform right downtown.Sarne will stick to waiting on the CTA bus, since she is no longer comfortable riding the ‘L’ at all.And indeed, Sarne unfortunately knows firsthand. As she waited on the Jackson Red Line platform at State Street and Jackson Boulevard at 2:30 p.m.
“But the ‘L,’ until they have police down there or some semblance, I’m not going down there,” Sarne said. “It just doesn’t feel safe to me.” This week, there were four separate attacks reported along CTA train lines. The most recent was the aforementioned one on the Red Line on Wednesday night, where the trio robbed the man at gunpoint and he flagged down officers at the Roosevelt station.Chicago Avenue stopOn Monday morning around 9 a.m., a 30-year-old man was pistol-whipped after getting into a quarrel at theon the Red Line. Police also said shots were fired during the incident, but no one was hit.
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