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A Chicago man has been charged after allegedly punching and pushing someone onto the tracks at a CTA Blue Line stop in Forest Park this week, local authorities said.

Tommie Carter, 39, faces one count of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated battery to a police officer.

Forest Park police officers responded to a call of a battery at the Harlem Avenue CTA Blue Line stop just after 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, according to a news release from the department. Officers were told, through the village’s dispatch center, that an elderly man had been punched and was lying on elevated train tracks, police said.

When officers arrived, they found the victim lying on the tracks while Carter was on the train platform. As officers trie

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