Chicago's mean streets have claimed another victim in the Democratic-controlled city with a 61-year-old woman brain dead after being run over during an attempted robbery.
In another of the tragedies that have become commonplace in the crime-ridden Midwestern metropolis, the unidentified victim was riding a Red Line train in downtown Chicago when two men trying to steal her purse and who resorted to savage brutality were attacked. during his criminal act.
One of the men, a black thug and convicted felon named Mijawon Johnson, strapped the woman to a seat and “repeatedly punched and kicked her in the head and stomach, and jumped on top of her with all his weight,” according to the police.
Johnson, 36, who was arrested for his role in the January 4 assault, has an extensive criminal record and was on probation for armed robbery at the time of the brutal attack on the woman helpless
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The victim, who was found unresponsive on the train at Roosevelt Station around 1:30 a.m., was taken to a local hospital where he was “on a ventilator and brain dead” and “not he hoped he would survive,” prosecutors said. seconds on CWB Chicago.
Johnson was arrested on Jan. 5 when police stopped the CTA bus he was riding on to arrest him. He was identified by surveillance video of the attack.
He was charged with attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault and could face a murder charge if the victim dies, which appears likely.
The vicious thug also faces a separate charge of violating an order of protection against a person other than the 61-year-old man he allegedly brutalized on the CTA train.
The violation occurred on Dec. 31, 2023, when Johnson allegedly entered the Old Town home of a 27-year-old woman after she was ordered to leave.
“Johnson was paroled in August after serving half of a six-year sentence he received for robbing an undercover narcotics agent on the West Side on St. Patrick's Day 2021,” according to CWB Chicago. “At this point, Johnson held his hand to his side as if he had a gun and ordered the undercover officer to give him cash and his phone. The officer handed over his phone and cash with numbers pre-recorded series intended to buy drugs, according to CPD's case report.”
“Other officers moved in and arrested Johnson when the undercover officer gave them a secret signal to alert them that he was being robbed,” according to the outlet. “At the time of the robbery, Johnson was on probation for aggravated assault on a police officer at the Near North (18th) District Station, 1160 North Larabee.”
Johnson “was sentenced to prison six more times between 2007 and 2015, all for narcotics, according to IDOC records,” CWB Chicago reported.
“Eleven cases of aggravated battery were reported at the Roosevelt L station in 2023, according to city data. Three of those cases involved a knife or other cutting instrument, and four involved a gun or another dangerous weapon.” seconds in the Chicago Tribune. “The violent crime rate on the CTA remains above pre-pandemic levels. In the first 11 months of 2023, there were about 4.7 violent crimes for every million trips on the L.
Democrats have fittingly chosen the Windy City as the site for their 2024 convention where Joe Biden or a yet-to-be-named mystery candidate will be crowned in August at the United Center, Barack Obama's main stomping ground .
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