A 37-year-old woman has been arrested for the eighth time in six months for carrying out a string of unprovoked, random attacks on the West Side while she was AWOL from a separate battery case.
Prosecutors say Diamond Miller was in AWOL status from a pending misdemeanor battery case when she allegedly attacked three people within minutes near Pulaski Road and Cermak Road around noon on December 21.
The first attack occurred on a southbound CTA #53 Pulaski bus, where a 33-year-old man asked Miller to quiet down so he could hear his wife during a phone call, prosecutors said in a detention petition. Miller approached the man and struck him in the face “with great force,” causing him to experience “pain and dizziness,” according to the filing. The bus driver stopped at Pulaski and Cermak and summoned police and EMS.
Meanwhile, Miller exited the bus and walked to a nearby bus shelter, prosecutors said. At 12:17 p.m., a second victim and her friend approached the shelter where Miller was acting erratically and telling them to give her space, according to prosecutors. The victim and her friend walked away eastbound, but Miller allegedly followed them…