A girl with a major historical past of attacking individuals on the CTA is accused of battering 4 extra victims within the Loop this week, some with a bottle, lower than 24 hours after she walked out of jail for attacking different riders.
Officers mentioned two of her newest victims had been on the Pink Line. Two others had been grandparents taking their grandson to a vacation lunch on the Walnut Room inside Macy’s after they had been attacked on a retailer escalator, in response to prosecutors.
Jada Beatty, 26, appeared in court docket Wednesday morning and was ordered detained by Decide Deidre Dyer.
Her document on public transit spans a number of years. In August 2022, she was charged with aggravated battery of a transit worker after throwing a full plastic Sprite bottle that struck a CTA bus driver within the jaw close to the 3400 block of South Martin Luther King Drive.
She pleaded responsible to a lowered misdemeanor battery cost a yr later and obtained 12 months of social service supervision from Decide Michael McHale.
The supervision didn’t go nicely.
On Might 1, 2024, she struck a 20-year-old lady within the face on a platform on the Roosevelt CTA station, inflicting the sufferer to fall to the bottom. Beatty was arrested on the scene and charged with aggravated battery of a transit passenger and aggravated battery in a public place.
Sooner or later later, she pleaded responsible and obtained a two-year sentence from Decide McHale. With three hundred and sixty six days of credit score for time spent on digital monitoring and the state’s commonplace sentence discount, she was launched the identical day.
Her arrests continued.
Early on October 6, she was charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery after she pushed a 27-year-old Atlanta lady down a number of stairs on the Chicago-State Pink Line station.
The lady and a 32-year-old man informed police they declined to provide Beatty a cigarette and Beatty responded by pushing the lady, who misplaced her stability and tumbled down a number of stairs.
Beatty later informed officers that she believed the victims had been speaking about her previous abuse and making enjoyable of her, prompting her to shove them, in response to prosecutors.
Whereas on pretrial launch in that case, she was arrested once more.
Shortly after 10 a.m. on November 6, two 41-year-old girls reported that Beatty raised her fist towards them on the Clark-Division Pink Line station whereas threatening, “I’m gone whoop y’all a**.”
She was charged with aggravated assault of a transit passenger and assault.
Judges Rivanda Doss Beal and Theresa Smith Conyers stored her in jail for violating the phrases of her launch and Beatty stayed locked up till Monday.
That morning, she pleaded responsible within the October case and prosecutors dropped the November assault prices, in response to court docket data. Decide Donald Panarese Jr sentenced her to 80 days, however with credit score for jail time and the state’s 50 % sentence discount, she was launched the identical day.
Lower than 24 hours later, police say, she launched 4 extra random assaults within the Loop.
Round 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, December 16, a 19-year-old lady from Orlando, Florida, was driving a northbound Pink Line prepare that stopped on the State-Lake station.
Prosecutors mentioned Beatty boarded, stopped in entrance of the lady, and repeatedly struck her within the head with a wine bottle earlier than stepping off and boarding a southbound prepare.
Beatty allegedly walked via the southbound prepare and struck a 32-year-old lady on the brow with a glass bottle, inflicting what prosecutors described as a big bleeding laceration, then fled the scene.
About half-hour after the prepare assaults, a 63-year-old Elmhurst lady, her 66-year-old husband, and their grandson arrived at Macy’s for a noon reservation on the Walnut Room.
Because the household ascended an escalator to the sixth ground, Beatty wedged herself between the husband and spouse, prosecutors mentioned. She struck the husband twice within the head with a wine bottle, grabbed his glasses, and threw them. When the lady tried to intervene, Beatty struck her within the face, in response to the allegations.
Chicago cops discovered Beatty minutes in a while the Wabash Avenue aspect of the Macy’s constructing.
Whereas being pushed to the station, and with out being requested any questions, Beatty informed one of many officers, “I did hit that b****,” in response to prosecutors.
