Man charged with attempted murder of CPS teacher on CTA bus

A Chicago Public Schools teacher was stabbed repeatedly in an apparently random attack while riding a CTA bus home from work earlier this month, an incident police never disclosed publicly and that the public is only learning about now because a woman who saw the crime scene posted about it on social media.

Prosecutors say the attacker, 32-year-old Jeromeyo Gibson, ran from the bus, then escaped by stealing another man’s car, which he crashed about a block from former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square.

The woman said she learned about the stabbing from her roommate and went outside to see what was happening. She later posted a video describing the scene, saying the attacker had “started going crazy” on the bus before fleeing and taking another man’s car…

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