A Chicago man faces attempted murder charges for allegedly pushing a man with an intellectual disability onto CTA tracks Tuesday morning in Forest Park as a train approached.
CTA cameras show Tommie O. Carter, 39, approach the man on the ramp of the Harlem Blue Line station and repeatedly asking him for money, Cook County prosecutors said in a bond proffer read in court Wednesday.
After the man, 59, said he didn’t have any, Carter pointed in the man’s face and shoved him to the ground, prosecutors said in the proffer.
As the man moved to the train platform, Carter hit him in the back of the head and shoved him onto the tracks, prosecutors said.
The man, whose knees were broken, fell “really close” to the electrified third rail while a CTA train was approaching, according to prosecutors, who said the man has an intellectual disability. CTA employees stopped the train and turned off the rail so the man could be rescued.
Carter was ordered held pending trial on a charge of attempted first-degree murder.
Carter was previously sentenced to two years in jail for unlawful use of a weapon in 2023 and one year for retail theft in 2021, in addition to prior armed robbery charges, prosecutors said.