A CTA employee was stabbed and a Chicago Police officer was injured when a man pulled a knife on a train platform in the Loop Sunday evening.
The employee was responding to an altercation in the 300 block of South Dearborn Street about 5:45 p.m. when a 39-year-old man stabbed him with a knife, Chicago police said. The man then grabbed a blunt object and struck an officer in the back, police said.
The CTA employee, 44, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition. The officer was taken to a hospital and stabilized.
The attacker was transported to Stroger Hospital for unknown injuries and was also stabilized, according to police.
