A Chicago man was charged today with pistol-whipping a CTA
train passenger and stealing his iPhone
in an altercation last month that ended with four members of the Guardian Angels
volunteer security patrol being stabbed.
Keith Gunn, 34, is accused of
attacking a 27-year-old Edgewater
man aboard a Red Line train on May 15 as it pulled into the Clark and Division.
The Angels volunteers
saw the robbery and were waiting for Gunn as he ran from the train onto the
platform, one of the men told the Tribune a day after the incident.
The
four witnesses wrestled Gunn to the ground, but his accomplice pulled a knife
and stabbed them before he and Gunn ran out of the station.
Photos from surveillance cameras in the station show Gunn and the
other suspect then running from the platform.
Three of the
Angels and the man who was robbed of his iPhone were treated and released from
hospitals, while the fourth Angel wasn’t hospitalized.
Gunn was arrested Thursday at a relative's home in Rockford. His
accomplice is still at large.
Gunn, of the 5800 block
of West Midway Park, has been convicted of several crimes in the past two
decades.
In 1994, when Gunn was 16, he was convicted of murder and
sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to court records. He was released
from prison in August 2003.
Since
2004, Gunn has been convicted of four drug felonies, court records
show.
Gunn is charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery in the
CTA case.
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