Man, 18, riding CTA bus bashed in head with cane during a hate crime Wednesday afternoon, police say

By Rosemary Sobol @ ChicagoTribune​.com, Oct. 3

Police were trying to find a person who hit an 18-year-old man in the head with a metal cane while yelling racially derogatory epithets on a CTA bus in the Marquette Park neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.

The man was on his way home from Daley College, [....] when a man approached him “without provocation" and said: “F------ immigrant,” according to police. The 18-year-old remained seated, but the attacker bashed him in the head with the cane he was holding before saying: “F------ Mexicans,” and “Look at those clothes, you probably stole them,” police said.

The attacker then got off the bus, and the 18-year-old made his way to Holy Cross Hospital, where he needed four staples to close the head wound, police said. He’s since been able to go home, The assailant was described as being an African American man in his early to mid-20s, between 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10, about 155 pounds, with his hair worn in dreadlocks. He was wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, police said. [....]