Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 11/19/2025 5:54:24 PM PST by lowbridge
Lawrence Reed, 50, was charged in a criminal complaint with committing a terrorist attack or other violence on a mass transportation system — a federal offense rather than a state offense.
Andrew Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said the 26-year-old victim was minding her own business and reading her phone on an O'Hare-bound Blue Line train around 9 p.m. Monday when Reed came up and set her on fire with no provocation whatsoever.
"The surveillance video is difficult to watch, and very disturbing, as a young woman was set ablaze, and tried to put herself out, while other passengers got out of the way or watched," Boutros said.
Chicago police investigators obtained surveillance footage from Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train car No. 3236, which showed the victim sitting on a seat in the middle of the train car, according to a federal court affidavit. Reed was sitting in the back of the same train car.
The surveillance footage showed Reed standing up with a bottle in hand, walking up to the victim — who was seated with her back toward him — and pouring a liquid from the bottle all over her body. Reed then tried to ignite the liquid, the affidavit said.
At first, the victim fought off Reed and ran to the front of the train, the affidavit said. But Reed chased her and dropped the bottle on the floor, the affidavit said.
-snip
Reed has a long criminal record. CBS News Chicago found 49 arrests — including 10 felony cases. Three cases were later dropped, six ended up with convictions ranging from probation to 30 days in the Cook County Jail — and in the case of one drug conviction from 2003, two years in Illinois state prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
“Why is the POS still taking in nourishment and sucking in oxygen?”
Because of JB Creosote, Governor.
L
We have perhaps begun a series of copycat random killings of women on the trains?
Some logic and rationality here. Hope to put it in place and hope that many agencies do not file budgets on time. Hope is pretty thin, though.
I did think of that but the method is different.
A woman in the Chicago area was stabbed, but not to death, a week ago. Before that, Tmthere was also a case in a mid-Atlantic state where a girl visited her brother at a fraternity, and stayed there. An Amish intruder forced the girl strip, but (to my knowledge) did not sexually assault her, but did shoot her to death.
Will he also be charged with a racial bias crime?
49 arrests — including 10 felony cases.
Judges proving their worthlessness again and a gain.
Link the compensation of federal and state judges presiding over criminal courts to re-offending rates of those that appear before their court. Very simple stuff to fix if they wanted to. They obviously do not want to. They are not connected to the idea that they work for the people, not special interests around the globe with nefarious intent cash.
Agree the system is in danger mode.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.