Man Wearing All Black Walks Along Train Tracks Near Howard, Cook County IL
Suspicious ActivityA man dressed in all black was spotted walking on the CTA Red Line train tracks near the Howard station. The individual is not a CTA employee. For safety, the power to the tracks has been shut down and police are searching for him. Initial reports mentioned a battery and possible gun, but no weapon was involved and those parties have left. Police are now focused on locating the man on the tracks.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 11
03:18
Transcript:
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I had a complete disregard to the Howard Led's red line on the battery and progress person with the uncomplete disregard.
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Two,
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four, three one.
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431.
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Show us how we're applying a post.
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Ten for everyone else out.
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I'm not sure.
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One, Adam. Four, six one, Adam.
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Four, six one, Adam.
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2010-6-1-5-1-0-6-1-2-1-4
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Winniak Park check 10-4[1]
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20601 Charlie
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261 Charlie Can I get a premise check 11.05 West Bramara 11 .15 West Brin-Mars, 104. 11.05 Western-Mars, 104.
01:05
7385, George.
01:09
7385, George?
01:12
Yeah.
01:13
Squad, did you get a call over at Coward and the Red Line?
01:18
Yes,
01:20
we did.
01:22
Okay,
01:23
well, that guy is somehow on the tracks heading north from the Howard line.
01:29
They say he's over by the shop,
01:32
which is on the other side of Howard.
01:38
Do you have a description?
01:40
Is it a CTA employee?
01:44
No, it is not.
01:45
Not a CTA employee. I'm going to get you the description right now.
01:53
So you're saying he's on the tracks or he's not on the tracks?
01:58
No, he was on the tracks and he took off going north on the tracks.
02:04
So apparently he's wearing all black.
02:10
Okay, he's in ABLEC and he took off from the track. Male black, all black.
02:14
I don't know anything else for right now.
02:18
Okay, were you there with 247?2? Because,
02:22
yeah, I don't know.
02:25
That's right. Everybody cleared out, so they didn't see him, but he took off down the tracks.
02:33
Okay, are you asking us to tell CTA to shut down the tracks?
02:37
They already did that. They need somebody on the other side. I don't know if it's probably easier for them to do it to go all the way over there because it's pretty far out.
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2423.
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423.
02:54
Hey, 423, can you go back to, or actually good morning, can you go to the Howard Red Line? We had 2472 there for a battery in progress[2] person with the gun.
03:04
They said they were CTA employees, but it's not employees.
03:07
We got 7385 George giving us information. If you can reach out to them, so you can give you more further info.
03:13
But according to him, it's a male black, all black, that was walking down the tracks,
03:17
and they shut down the power.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).
[2]
battery in progress: Battery or assault actively occurring
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Howard, Illinois
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