Fleeing robber knocks woman down stairs at Fullerton CTA station

A woman exiting a North Side CTA station was critically injured Monday evening when a fleeing robber knocked her down the stairs.

The man robbed somebody on the Brown Line and knocked a woman down the stairs at the Fullerton station in the 900 block of West Fullerton Avenue as he fled the scene, police said.

The 68-year-old woman hit her head and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said.

A description of the suspect was not immediately available.

Belmont Area detectives are investigating, but nobody is in custody Monday night.

(update-Woman dies)