Overview
- Officers responded to the Western station at 1909 North Western Avenue around 12:20 a.m., according to CPD.
- The attacker pulled out a sharp object, stabbed a 30-year-old man in the left hand, and fled the station on foot.
- Police described the suspect as a bald Hispanic man wearing a gray jumpsuit.
- The incident follows recent CTA stabbings, including two women injured on a Brown Line train after a fight that began at the Clark–Lake platform.
- On March 12, a 37-year-old man was stabbed on the Grand Red Line platform in River North, with police reporting an unprovoked attack.