North Cook News

Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison (R-Palos Park) is pointing an accusatory finger at State's attorney Kim Foxx after a man recently charged with shooting a guard on a train was eligible to get out of jail on bail.

"Arrested previously 32 times, four were violent felonies," Morrison said in a Jan. 30 Facebook post. "Shoots a guard on a train, but is Now eligible to get out again on cash bail, because the states Attorneys did NOT request he be held with no bail! 'See the Pattern???'"

Bail was set at $25,000 for 33-year-old Darius Moss after he engaged in a "firefight" with a concealed carry holder aboard a CTA train during the middle of rush hour, promoting Morrison to take to Facebook to wonder out loud, "When will Cook County end these failed policies our elected’s crafted and still support?"

Police said Moss quarreled with a 25-year-old bank security guard who was riding the train home shortly before 5 p.m. when Moss "upped a firearm" and announced a robbery, eventually taking the man's keys, phone, credit card and concealed carry license; CWBChicago reported. Moss was subsequently charged with armed habitual criminal and armed robbery with a firearm, but at his court appearance the judge was barred from ordering him held without bail because prosecutors did not ask her to do so despite the violent and serious charges filed against him.