Chicago train attack suspect repeatedly violated curfew, movement restrictions, records show

The 50-year-old antheral facing national coercion charges for allegedly mounting a pistillate connected occurrence aboard a Chicago bid past week had repeatedly violated his court-ordered curfew and question restrictions stemming from a anterior convulsive discourtesy case, tribunal records show.

Lawrence Reed had been ordered onto physics monitoring connected Aug. 22, erstwhile Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez denied a prosecution petition to support him jailed connected felony allegations that helium knocked a societal idiosyncratic unconscious portion astatine MacNeal Hospital’s psychiatric ward.

During that hearing, transcripts amusement Molina-Gonzalez told prosecutors: "I can’t support everybody successful jailhouse due to the fact that the State’s Attorney wants maine to."

According to the recently filed papers successful that artillery case, Cook County physics monitoring records amusement Reed repeatedly violated his curfew and question restrictions successful the days starring up to the alleged Chicago Transit Authority onslaught connected Nov. 17.

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Lawrence Reed, 50, is charged with committing a violent onslaught oregon unit against a wide proscription system, according to officials. (Chicago Police Department)

The logs item aggregate instances wherever Reed near his location with his ankle show without authorization, returned late, oregon triggered "escalated alerts" indicating prolonged oregon superior non-compliance. 

The violations span respective dates, including Nov. 9, Nov. 12–13, Nov. 14–15, and Nov. 15 again, with further alerts connected the nighttime of Nov. 17 — the day of the alleged CTA attack.

Train footage shows Reed allegedly coming up down a pistillate and pouring the liquid connected her caput and assemblage earlier lighting her connected occurrence portion aboard a Chicago L bid connected Nov. 17, 2025. (U.S. District Court documents)

Reed was riding connected the city’s Blue Line L bid astatine astir 9 p.m. Nov. 17 erstwhile helium approached a 26-year-old pistillate from down and doused her with gasoline from a integrative bottle, according to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apprehension affidavit.

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The pistillate managed to combat Reed disconnected arsenic helium attempted to ignite the gas, past ran from 1 extremity of the car to the different portion Reed continued to pursuit her, the affidavit said, citing surveillance video from the train. Reed subsequently ignited the bottle, approached the unfortunate and utilized it to acceptable her connected fire, prosecutors said.

Records amusement immoderate alerts continued into the aboriginal greeting hours of Nov. 18, astir 3 hours aft the incidental occurred.

Reed’s approved question docket nether physics monitoring allowed him to beryllium retired lone during constricted windows: Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Reed was taken into custody Tuesday greeting with pain marks connected his manus and wearing the aforesaid apparel arsenic the fishy seen successful surveillance footage carrying retired the attack, the apprehension affidavit said.

The victim, aboriginal identified arsenic 26-year-old Bethany MaGee, suffered terrible burns to her look and assemblage and remains successful captious condition, according to authorities.

Bethany MaGee, who was critically injured successful a Nov. 17, 2025, onslaught aboard a Chicago L train, holds a feline successful an undated photo. (Bethany MaGee via Facebook)

In April, aft the Chief Judge’s Office took implicit the countywide physics monitoring program, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke reportedly warned unit successful a memo that the bureau was not prepared for the work and described the programme arsenic "a superior menace to nationalist safety."

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A spokesperson for the Cook County main judge's bureau declined to remark to Fox News connected the monitoring violations by Reed.

In a abstracted filing precocious past week that Fox News besides obtained, Cook County prosecutors moved to revoke Reed’s pretrial merchandise successful the August aggravated artillery lawsuit based connected the caller national coercion charge. If their petition is granted, Reed would beryllium held without enslaved successful the region case, careless of the presumption of the national proceedings.

Reed’s adjacent tribunal day successful the Cook County aggravated artillery lawsuit is acceptable for Dec. 4.

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In national court, U.S. District Judge Laura McNally — who connected Friday ordered Reed detained pretrial — has not yet acceptable a adjacent day successful the coercion case.

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.