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"site": "https://chicago.suntimes.com",
"textContent": "<p>A former event security guard has been convicted in the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old man on a CTA Red Line train nearly four years ago, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.</p><p>A jury found Issac Anderson, 30, guilty of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/10/15/23405783/red-line-shooting-cta-chicago-87th\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>the Oct. 15, 2022 slaying</u></a> of 60-year-old Oral Woods; he faces 48 years to life in prison, the office said.</p><p>In previous hearings, prosecutors said after 6 a.m., Anderson was captured on CTA surveillance video moving to a seat beside Woods on the Red Line train near 87th Street, and grabbing his backpack before searching it and taking a bottle of Pepsi. He then threw the backpack at the man and kept the drink.</p><p>Anderson moved to a seat across the aisle, where he drank some of the Pepsi before throwing the rest of the bottle at the man, who then stood up from his seat, prosecutors said.</p><p>The recorded video didn’t show the man holding anything in his hands when Anderson allegedly reached into his pocket, pulled out a revolver and shot the man five times before fleeing; Woods was taken to a hospital but later died, prosecutors said. Anderson was arrested four days later near the same CTA station.</p><p>He is set to be sentenced July 9.</p>",
"title": "Former event security guard found guilty of 2022 Red Line shooting",
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