Man holding a knife fatally shot while on West Side bus: CPD

CTA bus
A Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus is seen making a turn Photo credit Tim Boyle/Getty Images

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead on a CTA bus Tuesday night.

It was just after 11 pm. The bus was on Division Street near Kostner.

According to Chicago Police, a witness said a man was waving a knife around on the bus. He approached another man. That man pulled out a gun and shot the man with the knife multiple times.

He was dead at the scene.  The man was 53-years-old, police said.

The man who fired the shots got off the bus and ran.

There are cameras on the buses.

Area Five Detectives are investigating.

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