CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a person with capturing a passenger aboard a Inexperienced Line prepare within the Loop on Christmas Eve. Sterling Sawyer, 43, is detained pending trial following a court docket listening to through which he repeatedly interrupted the proceedings, in accordance with the decide who dealt with the case.
Prosecutors instructed Decide David Kelly that Sawyer was driving the Inexperienced Line round 9:35 p.m. when the 35-year-old sufferer boarded the identical prepare automobile at Washington and Wabash. The boys knew one another and bought into an argument, officers stated.
Throughout the altercation, Sawyer allegedly pulled out a gun, shot the sufferer, and fled the scene. CTA surveillance cameras recorded the capturing, in accordance with prosecutors. Each Chicago police and the felony complaints filed in opposition to Sawyer say the capturing occurred on the Clark-Lake station.
Kelly stated he determined to detain Sawyer partly as a result of he had issues about Sawyer’s “incapability and unwillingness to manage his anger & his impulses.”
Sawyer is charged with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, possession of a firearm by a repeat felon, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He has two earlier felony convictions, one for manufacture-delivery of heroin and the opposite for tried arson, in accordance with prosecutors.
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