One of two men charged with robbing a 17-year-old boy at a CTA Green Line station was already on pretrial release for allegedly carrying a gun at that same station, court records show.
Stephon Edwards, 19, and Xander Simmons, 20, are accused of surrounding the boy at the Green Line stop at 63rd and Ashland on February 18 and taking his chain, backpack, and other items. Both men are now detained pending trial after Judge Ankur Srivastava ordered them held on robbery charges.
According to a detention filing by Assistant State’s Attorney Farihah Syed, the victim was on the first floor of the station at around 6:52 p.m. when he saw four people walk past him. Moments later, he said, the group surrounded him while wearing face masks. He felt a hard object pressed against his back, which he believed to be a gun…