A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a Chicago commuter train has a decades long criminal history and was on court-ordered electronic monitoring in an unrelated battery case at the time of the unprovoked attack, prosecutors said Friday.

The detail revealed in Friday’s hearing confirmed a variety of court and law enforcement records dating back more than 30 years that detail 50-year-old Lawrence Reed’s frequent contact with police in and around Chicago. A judge agreed Friday to keep Reed in jail pending trial on a federal terrorism charge he faces in the train attack.

The attack Monday night on Chicago's Blue Line L train has garnered national attention and drawn comparisons to the apparent random attack in August that saw another woman stabbed to death on a commuter train

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