A 23-year-old man has been detained for allegedly punching a 70-year-old CTA worker within the face, inflicting the sufferer to fall from a Blue Line platform and undergo a head damage.
Amir Cordova, 23, jumped the turnstile on the Grand-Milwaukee Blue Line station, 502 North Milwaukee, round 7:12 a.m., in line with a Chicago police report. The CTA worker confronted Cordova on the platform moments later.
Cordova allegedly punched the worker within the face, sending him tumbling off the platform and onto the tracks under. Prosecutors stated the sufferer misplaced a tooth and suffered head accidents from the autumn.
Video secured by Chicago Critter confirmed two passengers jumped onto the tracks to raise the sufferer again onto the platform as different CTA prospects helped from above. The person’s head damage is clearly seen within the footage.
Cops arrested Cordova about three hours later on the UIC-Halsted station, the police report stated.
Cordova is charged with three felony counts of aggravated battery and a misdemeanor cost of theft of providers for leaping the turnstile.
At a detention listening to Friday afternoon, Decide Rivanda Doss Beal ordered Cordova detained pending trial.
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