An Old Town man walked into his neighborhood police station and surrendered after seeing his picture broadcast across the news media as the person CPD was looking for following an attack on two CTA passengers this month, court records show.
Calvin Lockett, 35, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery in connection with the August 11 incident at the Fullerton Red Line station.
On August 20, CPD issued a community alert that included two pictures of an assailant who allegedly approached a 27-year-old man aboard a train and punched him in the face from behind. The attacker then fled the train at Fullerton. When the victim and a 28-year-old woman followed him, police said he struck the woman with a long cord across her back and chest. Both passengers were injured, according to police.
The morning after CPD released the alert to the media, Lockett walked into the Near North (18th) District police station and told officers he wanted to turn himself in, according to court records. Lockett told police he was surrendering “after seeing his photograph broadcast throughout the news media identifying him as wanted for battery,” according to his CPD arrest report.
In a criminal complaint, prosecutors said the woman was struck “several times” with the cord and that the male victim was also struck with it in addition to being punched. One court filing identified the object as a phone cord.
Judge Robert Kuzas denied the state’s request to detain Lockett and ordered him released.
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