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Man threatens passengers with screwdriver on trainChicago IL

audio iconAssault
W 79th St, Chicago, IL

Police reported a man threatening passengers with a screwdriver on a train near 79th Street. The suspect was last seen boarding a southbound train wearing a brown jacket and white hoodie.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Citywide Dispatch Channels
03:12
Transcript:
00:00
Citywide assault in progress on the Red Line near 79th Street, man threatening passengers with a screwdriver, about 50 years old, wearing a brown Carhartt jacket.
00:11
See, it may be on the platform as of right now, the 6-district zoning.
00:17
82 French control is looking out.
00:46
Simple.
00:58
Can you please repeat? Do that number is train with one back? Can you hear the numbers?
01:05
Adam? Yes, upper is going to be (number withheld), (number withheld).
01:11
and then lower is going to be (number withheld), (number withheld).
01:16
Okay. Thank you.
01:18
Your 1-1.
01:27
3211.
01:28
Can I have an advance for a highway cell?
01:32
All right,
01:38
3211 is going to be (number withheld), (number withheld).
01:42
Good.
01:50
3802 Frank, you can slow down, we don't see anybody matching the description.
01:55
All right, 7382 Frank is given to slow down if you are headed up the 79 red line for that man with a screwdriver, they don't see anyone.
02:04
Take the slow down, we're also going to notify.
02:10
9382 Eddie and upper and lower and Howard in red line.
02:21
Up is going to be (number withheld), (number withheld), lower is going to be (number withheld), (number withheld).
02:33
7701, Sam.
02:35
7301, Sam.
02:38
So that red line Sunday night.
02:40
Looks like a possible boarded stop on train.
02:42
O'927 hours.
02:43
Looks like he had a white hoodie underneath that brown Carhartt.
02:51
All right, he boarded the southbound train.
02:54
He said at 0921-0.
02:59
0927. All right, 0927 hours.
03:02
For 7301-1, Sam, the subject matches that description.
03:06
He boarded a southbound train at 097 hours near 79th Street.
03:09
He also had on a white hoodie underneath the Carhartt.

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W 79th St, Chicago, IL

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