A burning train car, a shooting under the Christmas lights, a killing in a doorway. Three tragedies close in space and time, the cause all the same. And no one with the sense to stop it.
"Burn, bitch!"
"Burn alive, bitch!"
That's what a fifty year old man with roughly seventy prior arrests reportedly shouted as Chicago police took him into custody, a day after he doused a twenty six year old woman in gasoline and set her on fire on a Blue Line train in the Loop. The victim, a young woman named Bethany MaGee, is still in a hospital bed with burns over 60% of her body. She was doing what thousands do every week in this city. She was riding the train home.