61-Year-Old Woman ‘Not Expected to Survive’ After Being Savagely Beaten on a CTA Train in the Loop
CWBChicago, January 10, 2024
Prosecutors say a 61-year-old woman is brain dead and will likely die after an eight-time felon, on parole for robbing an undercover CPD narcotics officer, savagely beat her during a robbery aboard a Red Line train in downtown Chicago.
Judge William Fahy granted the state’s petition to detain Mijawon Johnson, 36, as a public safety threat during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. {snip}
A man on parole for robbing a covert Chicago police narcotics officer is charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating a 61-year-old woman into unconsciousness on a Red Line train in the Loop.
She is not expected to survive.https://t.co/EaatuqI4ml
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) January 10, 2024
Surveillance video showed Johnson trying to steal the Uptown woman’s bag on a train car near State-Lake around 1:33 a.m. on January 4, officials said. He soon launched a violent attack, pinning her head on a seat and repeatedly punching her in the head and stomach, the detention petition said. Officials said he “stomped” on her body and left her on the train.
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Prosecutors told Judge Fahy that the woman was “on a ventilator and is brain dead” and was “not expected to survive.”
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Johnson was paroled in August after serving half of a six-year sentence he received for robbing a covert narcotics officer {snip}
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At the time of the robbery, Johnson was on parole for aggravated battery of a police officer {snip}
He was sentenced to prison six other times between 2007 and 2015, all for narcotics, according to IDOC records.
