The man charged with setting fire to a woman on a CTA Blue Line L train repeatedly violated the conditions of his home detention in a separate criminal case in the weeks leading up to the CTA attack, court records show.
Lawrence Reed is charged in federal court with terrorism, accused of pouring gasoline on a woman and setting her on fire . She was able to get off the train at the platform at Clark and Lake streets downtown. She suffered severe burns all over her body.
Separately, Reed, 50, faces an aggravated battery charge in Cook County criminal court in an Aug. 19 attack at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn. He’s accused in that case of attacking a social worker while he was a psychiatric patient there.
A judge freed Reed on electronic monitoring.
Court records show he was assigned to sta

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