Seven females and two males are accused of physically attacking one train passenger in Chicago last week, police said.

Police called the crime an aggravated battery.

'If confronted by an assailant/offender, remain calm and never pursue. Press the emergency button and alert the transit attendant,' police said.

The incident took place just after 9:30 p.m. last Tuesday in the 600 block of South State Street aboard a train in the Chicago Loop neighborhood, police said.

Police provided photos of the suspects. (Note: One of the suspects is shown twice — in the bottom far-right photos of the composite image next to the headline.)

Police also provided the following descriptions of each suspect:

Black male wearing a black T-shirt with white lettering and denim shorts
Black male wearing a black long-sleeved shirt
Black female wearing a blue T-shirt and blue shorts
Black female with red hair wearing a white top
Black female wearing a purple sweater
Black female wearing a black flower-print sweater
Black female wearing a black zip-up sweater and black shorts
Black female wearing a black hooded sweater and black pants
Black female wearing a black T-shirt with white lettering and black pants

Police cautioned citizens to "be aware of your surroundings and remember your location, bus/train car number, route or train line, train car number, and direction of travel. If confronted by an assailant/offender, remain calm and never pursue. Press the emergency button and alert the transit attendant. Call 911 immediately, provide detailed description of location and assailant."

Police added that those with any information about this incident should contact Public Transportation Detectives at 312-745-4447 or submit anonymous tips at CPDTIP.com and use reference RD #JK189284.

Police said another transit-related aggravated battery took place just after 4 p.m. Friday — this time on a CTA Red Line platform in the 1200 block of North Clark Street.

Image source: Chicago Police

Police said the victim — a 23-year-old female — was waiting on the train platform when one of the individuals pictured above pulled her to the ground by her hair, struck her on her face with a closed fist, and kicked her head and body.

Another one of the females pictured above assisted the other female by blocking bystander attempts to help the victim, police said.

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Concealed carrier reportedly opens fire on intruder who broke into his Chicago home after midnight, charged at him

A licensed concealed carrier opened fire on an intruder who broke into his Chicago home after midnight Monday and charged at him, CWB Chicago reported.

The 33-year-old victim called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and said he shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street — and had started CPR on him, the outlet said.

'Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed! That’s a justification!'

The intruder was shot in the chest, the outlet said.

His victim's home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District police station, the outlet added.

Arriving officers took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m., the outlet said.

The intruder remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, CWB Chicago noted, adding that detectives are investigating the shooting.

The homeowner said he did not know the intruder, WBBM-TV reported.

The residence where the shooting took place is in the Far South Side’s Deering neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Most of the commenters under WLS-TV's Facebook post about the shooting seemed squarely in the homeowner's corner:

"Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed!" one commenter exclaimed. "That’s a justification!"
"Finally, a story with a happy ending," another user noted.
"Would get the same breaking into our house," another commenter promised.
"Don't break in someone's house," another user suggested. "The guy was protecting his home."
"Great job homeowner!!!" another commenter declared.
"People need to think [about] the consequences of their actions," another user offered.
"One thug at a time," another commenter concluded.
"Case closed, next story," another user wrote.

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Chicago Democrat torches his own party, Gov. Pritzker — reveals why Democrats block Trump's immigration enforcement

A Chicago Democratic leader is slamming his own party, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, for ignoring the Biden-Harris administration’s role in the nation’s immigration crisis.

During a Fox News interview shared on Wednesday, Alderman Raymond Lopez reacted to the recent murder of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, who was fatally shot while out on a walk with friends in Chicago.

'We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don't want to look as though we're capitulating to him.'

The suspect in the attack, Jose Medina-Medina, is an illegal alien from Venezuela who was captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents in May 2023 and released into the country under the leadership of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. One month after his release, he was arrested in Chicago for allegedly shoplifting, but he was released from custody once again.

"Her death was 100% avoidable. And the culmination of the choices made here, in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois, to protect noncitizens even when they choose to engage in dangerous criminal behavior — that mindset has to change," Lopez told Fox News.

Lopez accused Pritzker of wrongly blaming President Donald Trump for Gorman's death. The alderman made this comment in response to a clip of Pritzker from earlier in the week, where the governor attributed Gorman's killing to "national failures."

Pritzker claimed that Trump failed to "follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst" criminals unlawfully present in the U.S.

JB Pritzker. Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg/Getty Images

"If you're going to blame the federal government, then blame it where this problem began, which was under the Biden-Harris administration that allowed 15 million people from South America, Central America, and across the oceans to come through our southern borders, manipulate asylum, be poorly vetted, and then scattered to the seven winds of the United States," Lopez told Fox News.

"I have yet to hear a single Democrat hold Biden and Harris accountable for what has happened," he added.

Raymond Lopez. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images

Lopez explained that there are currently 2,000 high-priority targets in Chicago who are known dangers to the community, but noted that Democratic leaders "refuse to work" with Trump to remove them.

"We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don't want to look as though we're capitulating to him," Lopez stated.

Lopez has previously fought to roll back the city's sanctuary laws to allow the Chicago Police Department to cooperate with federal immigration agents when illegal alien suspects have been arrested or convicted of certain crimes. He stated that his amendment to Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance "would NOT have protected" Medina-Medina from federal immigration enforcement.

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School paper of murdered college student apologizes to illegal immigrant, not victim

A student-run newspaper has apologized this week but not to the peer who was murdered.

Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, 18, was shot and killed on March 19 around 1:00 a.m. The Department of Homeland Security said at the time she had been walking in a park with friends.

'We deeply regret these errors, and we're committed to continuing the high standards we hold for ourselves as journalists.'

DHS went on to accuse Jose Medina-Medina, "a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien," of wearing a mask and shooting Gorman as she attempted to run away.

Now Loyola University Chicago's newspaper is apologizing for characterizing the accused as an "illegal immigrant."

In an article published on Sunday, the Loyola Phoenix added an editor's note about language used in an Instagram post on Monday.

The outlet first wrote that its original headline on Instagram, "Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved," was inappropriate because it caused "harm" to "community members."

"That headline didn't reflect the most important elements in the story, and it was taken down minutes later to prevent any further harm to affected community members," the Loyola Phoenix began.

Then the student-driven paper apologized for using the term "illegal immigrant" entirely.

"In the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an 'illegal immigrant,' using language provided by the Department of Homeland Security. That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper," the note said.

"No human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that."

Associated Press dropped the term "illegal immigrant" in 2013 and currently provides a bevy of alternate terms while declaring one should "use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant."

The style guide goes on to say that terms like "immigrants lacking permanent legal status" or "irregular migration" are acceptable substitutes. The guide explicitly says not to use the terms "alien, unauthorized immigrant, irregular migrant, an illegal, illegals, or undocumented," except when quoting people or government documents.

"Many immigrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones," it adds.

Photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Loyola's paper continued, saying it acknowledged the "harm such language can cause and the power and importance of the words we choose to use."

"We deeply regret these errors, and we're committed to continuing the high standards we hold for ourselves as journalists and members of the Loyola, Rogers Park, and Chicago communities," the message concluded.

Blaze News reached out to the article's author, Lilli Malone, who is also listed as the editor in chief of the paper, but did not receive a response.

In its report, DHS said that Medina-Medina was released into the country in May 2023 after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and released again that June after he was arrested for alleged shoplifting in Chicago.

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