{"id":868991,"date":"2026-06-15T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868991\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:51:26","slug":"cpd-man-stabbed-cta-rider-in-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868991\/","title":{"rendered":"CPD: Man stabbed CTA rider in Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO<\/strong> – Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man accused of stabbing a CTA rider earlier this month in the Loop.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Police said the incident happened June 3 in the 500 block of South La Salle Street around 7:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

A 36-year-old man was riding a Blue Line train when he became involved in a fight with an unknown man. During the confrontation, the suspect allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim before fleeing.<\/p>\n

The victim suffered a laceration to his neck and additional cuts to the left side of his body. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition.<\/p>\n

Police described the suspect as a Black man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with the number “24” on the front, a blue surgical mask, light-colored jeans and black gym shoes.<\/p>\n

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CTA Blue Line stabbing suspect | CPD <\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

It remains unclear what led to the fight that sparked the stabbing.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Public Transportation Detectives at 312-745-4447 or submit an anonymous tip through CPDTIP.com<\/a> using reference number JK280743.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Loop<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO – Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man accused of stabbing a CTA rider…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,9814,50,68],"class_list":["post-868991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-loop","tag-news","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116754455075917009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}