Current:Home > NewsSurpassing:A man charged with killing 4 people on a Chicago-area L train is due in court -Visionary Wealth Guides
Surpassing:A man charged with killing 4 people on a Chicago-area L train is due in court
TradeEdge Exchange View
Date:2025-04-06 20:46:16
MAYWOOD,Surpassing Ill. (AP) — A 30-year-old man charged with killing four people while they slept aboard a Chicago-area transit train was expected in bond court Wednesday.
The Labor Day shooting happened before 5:30 a.m. aboard Chicago’s L system, on train that was moving near where Blue Line ends in suburban Forest Park, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of downtown Chicago. Rhanni S. Davis, of Chicago, was arrested later Monday on another Chicago Transit Authority train line and charged Tuesday with four counts of first-degree murder.
Investigators haven’t determined a motive.
“The question of why may never be answered,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said at a news conference Tuesday.
She called the shootings a “horrific, heinous and inexplicable act of violence” and said more details would come out during Wednesday’s court hearing.
Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins told The Associated Press that the victims likely didn’t even see the shooter, saying they were shot at close range as they slept.
Margaret Miller, 64, and three men including Simeon Bihesi, 28, and Adrian Collins, 60, were fatally shot, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. All of their addresses were listed as unknown. The fourth person’s name has not yet been released because police were still working to notify relatives.
A preliminary police investigation found that the victims were on two different cars as the Blue Line train was headed toward Forest Park. The Blue Line runs 24 hours and stretches from that suburb through downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport. It runs both below and above ground.
Police later found Davis using video footage, Hoskins said.
“This was a very random, isolated incident,” CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. said Tuesday evening.
Public records did not have a listed phone number for Davis. Messages sent to a listed email were not returned. Forest Park police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office did not respond to messages about Davis’ legal representation. The Cook County public defender’s office didn’t immediately respond to a message Wednesday.
Davis was scheduled to appear in court at noon in suburban Maywood.
veryGood! (164)
Related
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
- Queen Letizia of Spain Is Perfection in Barbiecore Pink at King Charles III's Coronation
- The Heartbreak And Cost Of Losing A Baby In America
- Personalities don't usually change quickly but they may have during the pandemic
- John Galliano out at Maison Margiela, capping year of fashion designer musical chairs
- Can therapy solve racism?
- House GOP rules vote on gas stoves goes up in flames
- SEC sues Coinbase as feds crack down on cryptocurrency companies
- Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
- 2016: When Climate Activists Aim to Halt Federal Coal Leases
Ranking
- Bill Belichick's salary at North Carolina: School releases football coach's contract details
- Today’s Climate: June 21, 2010
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Son Archie Turns 4 Amid King Charles III's Coronation
- Joran van der Sloot, prime suspect in Natalee Holloway case, to be transferred to U.S. custody from Peru this week
- Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
- Princess Charlotte Is a Royally Perfect Big Sister to Prince Louis at King Charles III's Coronation
- Apple unveils new iOS 17 features: Here's what users can expect
- Judge Elizabeth Scherer allowed her emotions to overcome her judgment during Parkland school shooting trial, commission says
Recommendation
Opinion: Gianni Infantino, FIFA sell souls and 2034 World Cup for Saudi Arabia's billions
The new COVID booster could be the last you'll need for a year, federal officials say
What's it take to go from mechanic to physician at 51? Patience, an Ohio doctor says
We Can Pull CO2 from Air, But It’s No Silver Bullet for Climate Change, Scientists Warn
Warm inflation data keep S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq under wraps before Fed meeting next week
Here's what the FDA says contributed to the baby formula shortage crisis
3 common thinking traps and how to avoid them, according to a Yale psychologist
Wehrum Resigns from EPA, Leaving Climate Rule Rollbacks in His Wake