Chicago person of interest in train fire attack has 22 prior arrests, was freed by judge: report

A 50-year-old antheral being questioned successful Monday’s Chicago bid onslaught — wherever a pistillate was acceptable connected occurrence — has a agelong apprehension grounds and was antecedently freed by a justice aft allegedly assaulting a societal worker, according to a report.

The idiosyncratic of involvement has 22 anterior arrests since 2016 and 53 transgression cases successful Cook County dating backmost to 1993, including 9 felonies that led to blameworthy pleas — though lone 2 resulted successful jailhouse time, CWB Chicago reported.

In August, helium was charged with aggravated artillery aft allegedly knocking a pistillate societal idiosyncratic unconscious astatine a psychiatric hospital, according to the outlet. 

Despite prosecutors' petition to support him detained, a justice released him with physics monitoring, the outlet reported, citing tribunal documents. He was lone permitted to permission his location from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. connected weekdays.

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A Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bid arrives astatine a station. A pistillate was acceptable connected occurrence Monday aboard a CTA train, constabulary said.  (Getty Images)

Neither the antheral nor the justice was publically identified, arsenic nary charges person been filed yet successful the bid attack.

The idiosyncratic of involvement was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. 

A Chicago Transit Authority bid pulls into the Damen Ave. presumption connected Aug. 12, 2024, successful Chicago. (AP)

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Police said a 26-year-old pistillate was riding a Chicago Transit Authority bid astir 9:25 p.m. Monday erstwhile she got into an statement with a man. The altercation turned physical, and the fishy poured a liquid connected her and acceptable it connected fire.

A Chicago Transit Authority motion is seen successful Chicago, connected Oct. 14, 2022.  (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The fishy fled erstwhile the bid stopped. The pistillate exited and collapsed connected the platform. The flames were extinguished earlier archetypal responders arrived.

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 She was hospitalized successful captious information with terrible burns. No update connected her information was instantly available.

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.