Video appears to show the group trying to rob the CTA rider, with one of them pulling a gun, Chicago police said. The rider took out a knife and stabbed the gunman and ran away, as did the robbers.
It was the second time in three days that a rider on the Red Line used a knife to fend off a large group, and it comes as CTA officials acknowledge they’ve had problems filling shifts with unarmed guards, an initiative announced back in March.
"You want people to feel safe, you want them to ride the transit system and CTA has to do a better job of protecting them," Dixon said. "That’s not happening right now." He estimated that 250 guards are now deployed on the system on any given day, though he would not say how many are assigned to the Red Line, the agency’s busiest.
Ryan spoke hours after the latest attack on the Red Line, which sees the most crime in the CTA system. Police and paramedics found the wounded gunman about a block away, in the 6300 block of South Yale Avenue. The boy, 15-year-old Darin J. Mcnair, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead.
The CTA recently met with representatives from the union for bus drivers, Ryan said. "We met with bus operators about their concerns specifically," he said.
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