Months after walking out of court with a probation sentence for a downtown robbery case, 28-year-old William McGee is back behind bars—this time for another Red Line robbery that he allegedly committed a month before the case that earned him leniency.
According to prosecutors, McGee and a group of accomplices attacked a 30-year-old man on a Red Line train near 79th Street on May 10, 2024. The group allegedly beat the man and stole his belongings before fleeing. A week later, Chicago police released surveillance photos of several suspects, but those efforts failed to drum up any good information, and the case went cold.
But that changed last week when the victim picked McGee out of a photo lineup, identifying him as the man who punched him in the face and took his phone during the attack, according to a detention filing. Judge Deidre Dyer ordered McGee detained on charges of robbery and aggravated battery of a transit passenger…