Suspect accused of killing sleeping passenger on Chicago train filmed himself carrying out attack: prosecutors

A antheral accused of sidesplitting different rider successful a play stabbing connected a Chicago bid allegedly recorded the onslaught and its aftermath connected his cellphone, according to prosecutors.

FOX 32 Chicago reported that 40-year-old Demetrius Thurman is charged with execution successful the stabbing decease of 37-year-old Dominique Pollion, who was sleeping connected a Blue Line bid aboriginal Saturday greeting erstwhile the onslaught occurred.

Court records reviewed by the presumption amusement Pollion had been dormant successful the bid car for astir an hr without interacting with Thurman, and prosecutors said the men did not cognize each other.

Thurman allegedly approached Pollion from down astatine astir 2:17 a.m., began signaling connected his phone, and stabbed him erstwhile successful the thorax adjacent his bosom and erstwhile successful the abdomen with a weapon that had a bright-orange handle, tribunal documents show.

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Prosecutors allege that Demetrius Thurman recorded a fatal Chicago bid stabbing and its aftermath connected his phone, with CTA video helping place him arsenic a suspect. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

Pollion woke up screaming and tried to backmost distant down the bid car aisle earlier collapsing, prosecutors said. Thurman past switched trains.

Pollion was taken to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

CTA surveillance video captured the onslaught and its aftermath, prosecutors said, arsenic did video recorded connected Thurman’s phone.

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A information serviceman talks with a rider connected a Blue Line bid astatine the CTA Forest Park presumption successful Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Immediately aft the stabbing, tribunal documents say, Thurman pointed the telephone toward himself, capturing his look connected video.

When the bid arrived astatine the Clark/Lake presumption a abbreviated clip later, a rider alerted information officers connected the platform. While extracurricular the bid car, Thurman allegedly turned the camera connected himself again and said, "somebody got his ass," earlier leaving the station.

Investigators gathered images from surveillance video that prosecutors said showed Thurman’s look and submitted them to Illinois’ facial designation program, which led to his identification.

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Investigators allege that a Chicago antheral recorded a fatal Blue Line bid stabbing and its aftermath connected his phone, with CTA video helping place the suspect. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Police aboriginal issued a bulletin, and a Chicago constabulary serviceman who had encountered Thurman conscionable days earlier recognized him. The serviceman said Thurman had been sleeping connected a Blue Line bid astatine the clip and provided his driver’s licence during that encounter.

Thurman was arrested Sunday. Court documents accidental helium was wearing the aforesaid apparel seen successful the surveillance video and was successful possession of a cellphone that contained recordings of the stabbing, on with photos of different passengers sleeping connected the train.

Prosecutors said Thurman’s relative besides identified him arsenic the idiosyncratic seen connected surveillance video, and they allege Thurman admitted to stabbing Pollion. He was charged with first-degree murder.

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FOX 32 reported that Thurman’s transgression past includes disorderly conduct, DUI and a 2023 postulation arrest. His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Jan. 20.

Crime connected the CTA drew national scrutiny aft a November incidental successful which a antheral acceptable a pistillate connected occurrence aboard a downtown train.

On Dec. 19, national transit officials ordered the bureau to taxable a tougher information program wrong 90 days oregon hazard losing a 4th of its national operating funds.