A menace who brutally attacked women on CTA trains across the city over several months in 2024 was sentenced to nine years in jail on Tuesday, according to court records. Darryl Alexander, 35, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of aggravated violence and one count of criminal damage to government property in exchange for the sentence imposed by Judge Anjana Hansen.
Prosecutors charged Alexander with assaulting five women on the city’s transportation system between August 1 and October 8, 2024, offenses he allegedly committed while on probation for attempting to rob another lady on a train downtown.
Alexander pushed a 33-year-old woman to the ground at the Western Blue Line station, 1900 North Western, on August 1, 2024, causing her to hit her head on a wall and sustain a concussion, according to a criminal complaint. Five days later, authorities allege, he hit a woman in the head at the Grand Blue Line stop.
On October 5, he assaulted a 33-year-old lady in the face on the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform, shattering her cheekbone, according to authorities. The next day, he allegedly shoved and spat on a 24-year-old woman near the Addison Blue Line station.
Two days later, he grabbed a 33-year-old woman’s buttocks, pulled her hair, dragged her down a stairway, and smashed her on the ground at the Western Blue Line station in Bucktown, according to officials.
According to court documents, prosecutors dropped Alexander’s earlier battery charge the day before the final attack in Bucktown. In that case, a woman accused him of kicking her in the shoulder and pushing her back into her seat at the O’Hare Blue Line stop.
Alexander’s history of troublemaking on the CTA goes back considerably earlier. On March 31, 2024, he was charged with attempting to rob a woman of her pocketbook on the Purple Line near Chicago Avenue. In June 2024, he pleaded guilty and Judge Hansen sentenced him to two years probation. Court records reveal that he never returned to court for needed status hearings, and a warrant for his arrest had been issued by the time police apprehended him in connection with the five CTA attacks.
In a separate incident, a 45-year-old woman said Alexander relieved himself on her and her possessions on a Red Line train near Fullerton on January 30, 2024, according to a Chicago police report. He failed to appear in court three weeks later, and Judge Donald Panarese directed the clerk to contact him via postcard. He failed to arrive a second time, and prosecutors subsequently dismissed the charges despite his lack of attendance.
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