Thursday, October 15, 2026

Why bother arresting monsters if we simply set them free?-----A man charged with killing a CTA janitor at the Damen Green Line station Thursday afternoon was AWOL from two felony cases and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet as a condition of felony probation when he allegedly fatally stabbed the worker

Julian Mobley, 41, was working as a janitor at the Damen station on October 8 when Chevazz Campbell, 37, entered the station, jumped an accessible fare gate without paying, and began arguing with a CTA employee seated inside the customer service kiosk, using several racial slurs, prosecutors said in a detention filing...
  • Prosecutors said Campbell then sprayed Mobley in the face with mace twice. 
  • After Mobley ran out of the station, Campbell chased him with a knife and stabbed him once in the neck, according to the proffer...
  • Campbell has a prior conviction stemming from an October 5, 2018, incident in which he cut a teenager’s throat in the 400 block of West Roosevelt Road — almost exactly eight years before Mobley’s killing...

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