Homeless man stabbed on CTA Red Line train at Roosevelt

BySun-Times Media Wire
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Paramedics put a stabbing victim into an ambulance late Wednesday in the Loop. | Network Video Productions
Paramedics put a stabbing victim into an ambulance late Wednesday in the Loop. | Network Video Productions
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CHICAGO -- A homeless man was stabbed and critically wounded late Wednesday on a train at the Roosevelt Red Line station in Chicago's South Loop.

The 36-year-old man was on a train in the 1100 block of South State at 10 p.m. when he got into an argument with another homeless man, who pulled out a knife and stabbed him, according to Chicago police.

He suffered stab wounds to the left arm and chest and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, police said.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire - Copyright Chicago Sun-Times 2016.)