A South Shore Line officer shot and critically wounded an unruly passenger he was trying to remove from a train Thursday morning at the Hegewisch station on the Far South Side.
CHICAGO (WLS) A South Shore Line transit police officer shot a man after Chicago police said he became aggressive toward a ticket collector and conductor on a train in Chicago s Hegewisch neighborhood Thursday morning.
The incident occurred on the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District train 114 at about 8:15 a.m. in the 13700-block of South Brainard Avenue, police said.
The suspect, a 33-year-old man, was verbally aggressive to the ticket collector and conductor and the conductor requested help from a Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Transit Police officer, Chicago police said.
South Shore Line officials said the confrontation began in Hammond, and the conductor called for the assistance of Northern Indiana Commuter Transit Police, who met them in Hegeswich and attempted to remove the man from the train.
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