Serial Stabber Arrested In Attacks On Sleeping Homeless Men: CPD

CHICAGO — Police said a suspect is in custody pending charges in connection with the fatal stabbing of a sleeping homeless man last month and the wounding of three others in the weeks that followed.

On the morning of July 9, 58-year-old Aaaron Curry was found stabbed to death on a grassy area of Grant Park along Michigan Avenue just north of Roosevelt Road. He had suffered multiple stab wounds to his neck and abdomen, and a knife was found at the scene, according to Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

The same attacker struck again a week later, police said, stabbing a homeless man as he slept on the CTA Red Line near 63rd Street shortly before 2 a.m. on July 15.

Shortly before 4 a.m. on July 24, police said the suspect stabbed another man sleeping in the same part of the downtown park where he killed Curry.

And in the most recent occasion, a homeless man sleeping on the Red Line near 95th Street Tuesday was awoken by someone stabbing him around 3:30 a.m..

In each case, according to police, the suspect has walked up to sleeping homeless men and stabbed them in the neck with his left hand before running away. He wore the same hooded sweatshirt with the logo "Aero 1987" in the front in three of the four stabbings, according to police. No further information was available from police until charges are finalized.