Woman assaulted with knife and mace on Chicago Red Line, Chicago IL
AssaultA woman was attacked by a man armed with a knife and mace near the Red Line CTA station by Target at State and Madison in Chicago. The suspect boarded a northbound Red Line train wearing a red sweater and carrying a black book bag. Police are trying to stop the train at Fullerton to catch the offender. The victim is receiving medical care and is willing to press charges.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 04
08:16
Transcript:
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12, when you're out, can you head over, stay in Madison for this nice call, battery victim,
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whatever it's going to be. It sounds like it's going to be some sort of paper[1].
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Okay,
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for. Thank you.
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132.
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32. Good afternoon. When you're out in about, there's a fire.
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2721 South Indiana.
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Fire's going to the Michigan side, though.
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The Colorado power outage smells something burning.
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Fire is still on scene over there. I'll keep you updated.
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It's fairly new, so.
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That's fortunate.
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That's a 40, Henry. 80, Henry?
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1.80, Henry.
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Can you still let's look at the red line? We just spoke to the victim. She was just made.
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All right, relocating to the red line, you spoke to the victim. All right. Fire is en route for her, let her know, and then I do have a paper[1] card coming over there if you need one.
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Simple.
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Do you have any better description? All that we had was a male black, let's see,
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male black, short hair, blue jeans, and a red backpack.
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One name (name withheld), just confirmed was a victim and hurt by the offender.
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Yeah, she was missed.
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24, thank you.
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One-80, Henry. It's going to be a red sweater, blank book bag.
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Red sweater, black book bag. Okay, so male black, red sweater,
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black book bag with blue jeans on?
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204.
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Okay, did she see a knife for sure and he was last thing on the platform of the red line?
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No part of that's what she told us.
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Alright, so also has a knife, ten-four.
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131.
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131.
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You're clear from a transport and can you hold it on the station a station sign please?
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131 you're cleared from the transfer and you're in one on a station assignment sent four.
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180 Henry which red line entrance did you go into are you guys going to the Monroe red line?
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We're at the runway in the city of Madison.
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Okay, there's two entrances. There's one at Monroe and there's one at Washington.
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Washington.
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Washington side, okay.
03:24
All right, first 7301 Sam at 1535 hours. It was a northbound train number 8 to 8.8. The offender got on that train and left the station.
03:37
So it was a northbound train. The offender was on run number 828. I don't know where that train's currently at.
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113.
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113.
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So what can you show me you're okay for that station?
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113, you're in 1 on report, 7.4.
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3.01 Sam.
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7301 Sam.
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So at that train right now is at Northern Cliborne. I don't know if you guys want to put a stop on it, but it's just leaving the station right now.
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All right, so Fullerton is next.
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And for Fullerton is the next station if you want to hold it there.
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Okay.
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Is anybody so with the victim, does she want to sign complaints? Are we going to try to stop this guy?
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181817. 1887 King.
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State Committee, can we get a paper[1] card at 505 North Michigan?
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For what?
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We have a bicyclist crash with a auto vehicle. The victim is declining medical service, but he still wants to go ahead and file the report.
04:58
Okay, so the on-view auto accident.
05:01
Yeah, it'll be a minute though.
05:03
Anybody still with the victim at Target State Madison that can tell me if she's going to sign complaints and we want to try to stop this train?
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One 80, (name withheld), we're about trying to make contact with her.
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About a block, a half a block away.
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Okay, and four.
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What was your name again?
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Octavia, I think? Yeah, Octavia.
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1833.
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1833.
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3833. You put us on a traffic stop on Illinois and McCurt.
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Illinois and McCluret, 104.
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All right, we're calling CTA, just to try to preemptively get the train stopped, at least until we know for sure.
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Are there any 18th district cars in the area, the Red Line Fullerton, that can go start that way?
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1834 second one.
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1834 second watch.
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Face by you push on the train, good night.
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104, good night.
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1812.
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1812.
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1812.
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Can you go up to the red line Fullerton? We are on the phone with VTA
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trying to attempt to locate this offender. They're holding that train there.
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Time for us.
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180, (name withheld), can we get a callback? We're on the scene with EMS, not able to locate every one of the state.
06:54
Yeah, it'll be a minute.
06:55
My partner's on the phone with CTA. 180 Henry, did she say where she was going to go? She was right inside the entrance to Target. Adi Henry already talked to her.
07:07
We're going up with her back to the target so she can receive treatment.
07:14
Okay, so 180 Henry is with the victim. They're walking her back up toward target for EMS.
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80 Henry,
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does she want to sign complaint? Do we want to try to put a stop on this train on this guy?
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33.
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1833.
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lend this Illinois deal for me please send me sam 300 by three seven nine eight six six five okay one eighty ten she is willing to sign complaints okay so eighteen twelve she is willing to sign complaints The only description that I have right now is a male black, red sweater, black book bag, blue jeans, armed with a knife in mace.
08:03
He got on the northbound train, run number 8-28, that should be stopped at Fullerton Red Line right now.
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Unknown if he's still on the train, 7301 Sam was working on playing back his movements.
Police codes explained
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paper: Officer is being assigned to take/write the report
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