A man accused of nearly beating another passenger onboard a CTA Pink Line train will not spend any time in prison after receiving a two-year sentence on Monday, according to court records.
Jesus Ramirez, 45, was given credit for more than a year spent on electronic monitoring while his case was pending, and his sentence was lowered further under Illinois statute, which reduces jail terms by half for most felonies.
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Prosecutors claimed Ramirez and a 37-year-old Cicero man did not know each other when they met on a Pink Line train near the Polk station on April 10, 2024. According to a Chicago police complaint, the two exchanged words before the situation escalated physically.
According to investigators, Ramirez repeatedly kicked and struck the victim in the face and torso, continuing the assault even after the guy was lifeless on the train’s floor. Police said surveillance cameras captured footage of the whole attack.
The victim sustained horrific injuries. According to court records, he was in a coma for nearly a week before being hospitalized for two months with a scattered brain bleed, traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, a temporal bone fracture, ear damage, and a fractured nasal bone.
During an early court appearance, Judge Ankur Srivastava detailed the incident, saying Ramirez “nearly beat [the] victim to death on the CTA.”
About a month after the attack, Chicago police published surveillance photographs of the assailant, but detectives eventually solved the case using a combination of technology and an examination of Ramirez’s distinctive tattoos. According to a police report, a detective put CTA video photos through facial recognition software to identify prospective leads before scheduling an in-person contact with Ramirez. During the meeting, detectives verified his identity by comparing his tattoos to the attacker’s.
According to a CPD report, Ramirez’s tattoos included pictures of a dead Jesus and a dead Virgin Mary, two skeletons in a coffin, “girl kissing Dia de los Muertos man on neck,” a pentagram on his hand, a Pink Floyd logo, and a dissected woman on his lower left arm.
Ramirez was first imprisoned at the Cook County Jail on the allegations, but Judge Tyria Walton freed him on an ankle monitor three months later. According to court records, he had 581 days of credit when he pled guilty to aggravated violence on Monday, which was more than enough to offset the prison time Walton sentenced him to. He has no criminal record in Cook County before to his arrest in the CTA attack.
