The shooting Tuesday evening on a Red Line train at 47th Street on Tuesday evening follows months of gunpoint robberies and other crimes on trains and train platforms.
CTA Vice President of Security Kevin Ryan said keeping guns off CTA property is indeed a key issue – but not a simple one to solve. He said something like a Transportation Security Administration-style checkpoint, for example, would not work.
The man was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was reported in serious condition, police said. Witness Kewhawn George told CBS 2's Jermont Terry that before a gun was pulled, the gunman stepped on the victim's shoes. As of Tuesday afternoon, the gunman still was not in custody as police continued to investigate yet anotherWe have tracked the spike in crime on the CTA closely at CBS 2. Earlier Tuesday, we reported on theas the officer was struggling to arrest somebody else at the Roosevelt Red Line stop.
Ryan noted that most violent crimes on the CTA follow a certain pattern – and do not target random people.
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