Four passengers were shot and killed while sleeping on a Chicago Transit Authority train Monday morning, according to the mayor of the Chicago suburb of Forest Park.
CTA workers found the shooting victim around 5:30 a.m. WLS-TV reportedForest Park police said they received a 911 call about the shooting. Three victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the fourth died at Loyola University Medical Center, the department said.
“It's a holiday Monday morning. Everyone should be enjoying their day off with their families. Today is Labor Day, after all…”
Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins told WLS that all of the victims were adults and were asleep at the time of the shootings.
“The victims probably never expected this to happen,” Hoskins told the station, adding, “They were executed on Labor Day. In our community, people go to the pool, they go to the park, they have barbecues. But today, many people were calling the mayor's office expressing their concerns and asking if they were safe.”
Police told WLS that the shooter fled the scene, but officers took him into custody within 90 minutes and recovered the gun allegedly used in the shooting.
“He appears to have gotten off at the Forest Park station and was arrested at some Pink Line station in Chicago, so he may have been on a train going in the opposite direction,” Hoskins added to the station.
Police told WLS that the shooting happened in two cars of the train.
“This is a terrible situation,” Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin told the station, “You definitely don't want to wake up to something like this. It's a Monday morning on a holiday. Everybody should be enjoying their day off with their families. It's Labor Day.”
Forest Park police and the West Suburban Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the shooting, WLS said, adding that police said the incident appears to be an isolated incident and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
Neither the suspect nor the victim in the shooting have been identified, according to the sheriff's office.
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