A 28-year-old passerby who joined a security guard’s pursuit of a suspected shoplifter was stabbed three times inside a West Side CTA station, leaving him blind in one eye and with little remaining vision, prosecutors said.
Shawn Jackson, 56, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the May 1 attack near the Pulaski Blue Line station. Judge Robert Kuzas ordered Jackson detained while the case is pending.
The confrontation began around 9:38 p.m. inside a gas station in the 400 block of South Pulaski Road, where surveillance video allegedly showed Jackson shoplifting. The security guard recognized him from a similar incident a week or two earlier and had previously told him not to return, prosecutors said…