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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 19 April 2014 - 08:39 AM

Chicago, IL Tribune, 4/18/14:

Man, 32, charged in beating on Skokie Swift CTA train


Police have charged a 32-year-old Chicago man in a beating on the Skokie Swift CTA line that left a 61-year-old man badly bruised late last month.


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Posted 08 October 2015 - 12:02 PM

Chicago Tribune, 10/7/15:

 

Chicago man sentenced in 'vicious' 2014 Yellow Line beating

 

A Chicago man found guilty in the beating of a 60-year-old man riding on the CTA Skokie Swift Yellow Line last year has been sentenced to five years in prison.

 

Ganaa Otgoo, 33, of the 1400 block of South Canal Street, was found guilty of aggravated battery last month in the April 2014 attack. Otgoo was arrested after police released security video of him on the train to the public, authorities said.

 

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During the sentencing hearing Wednesday, Otgoo denied he was the man in the CTA security video released. The victim, however, said Otgoo was his attacker, and though the victim was ill and could not be in court Tuesday, he asked prosecutors to read aloud a victim impact statement on his behalf.

 

"The defendant pulled my hooded sweatshirt over my head and punched and kicked me in the face and body even as I lay on the floor of the train curled up to defend myself," the statement read. "I now suffer from migraine headaches and have lost several teeth due to this vicious attack. It is rare that I go out at night anymore. I do not take any trains or buses."

 

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