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A suburban man put a South Shore Line transit police officer in a chokehold and clawed at his face before the officer shot him earlier this week at a Far South Side train station, Cook County prosecutors said during a Saturday hearing.
A judge set bail at $50,000 for Lansing resident Alfredo Alanis, 33, who is charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer following the Thursday morning disturbance on a commuter train from Indiana to Chicago.
Alanis allegedly got angry and threatened a worker who asked him to buy a ticket at the next stop about 8 a.m., prosecutors said.
In the day’s first reported incident, a South Shore Line officer shot and critically wounded an unruly passenger he was trying to remove from a train, police said.
A South Shore Line officer shot and critically wounded an unruly passenger he was trying to remove from a train Thursday morning at the Hegewisch station on the Far South Side.