CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A suspect is in custody in connection with the stabbing of four sleeping homeless men in recent weeks at Grant Park and on the CTA.
Details on the arrest and charges would be released once they are finalized, Chicago police said Friday morning.
Police released surveillance images of a suspect wanted in connection with the attacks on Wednesday.
The first stabbing on July 9 left a man dead in a grassy area of Grant Park. Aaron Curry, 58, was found with a knife stuck in his neck in the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was found at 9 a.m. that day, but it was unclear how long he had been dead, police said.
The next attack happened July 15 at the 63rd Street Red Line station. A 63-year-old homeless man walked into St. Bernard Hospital saying he had been stabbed at 1:50 a.m. while sleeping, police said.
On July 24, another man was seriously wounded in Grant Park. A 53-year-old homeless man was sleeping under a blanket when he was stabbed multiple times in his neck and head area, police said. Officers patrolling the area at 6:40 a.m. found the man dripping with blood, walking down the street. He was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The latest attack happened early Tuesday, Aug. 18, on a Red Line train near 95th Street, police said. A homeless man, 40, was woken up to someone stabbing him in the neck and wrist. He went to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was listed in good condition.
Police said the man used his left hand to stab sleeping homeless victims in the neck all four times, CBS 2 reported.
The suspect is between 5-foot-9 to 6-foot-1, police said. He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with red “Aero 1987” written on the front.