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CBS Chicago's 5:25 p.m. CST update says the driver escaped through her window. An earlier version of that page said the man climbed out.
Tara Molina's update says Quentin Lewis, 36, got into an unlocked car that was still running. The Chicago Sun-Times says prosecutors described a Dodge Ram left running outside a bakery, and an arrest about 8:25 p.m. Chicago police say he boarded near the 2800 block about 8:01 p.m. and was stopped in the 5500 block. The driver is not named.
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Kidnapping, armed kidnapping, kidnapping while armed with a firearm, and Kidnapping/Armed with a Firearm are not the same charge name. Unlawful restraint and aggravated unlawful restraint are not the same count. Tuesday, on the Sun-Times, and Nov. 10, on FOX 32, are the return dates those pages print. Nov. 10, 2026, is a Tuesday. The driver is not named.
CBS Chicago, by Tara Molina, updated on November 6, 2026, at 5:25 p.m. CST, reported a Chicago man is charged with kidnapping and several other felonies after police said he pulled out a gun on a CTA bus and threatened the bus driver and passengers. It reported police said Tuesday, just before 8:30 p.m., a man was on a CTA bus in the 5400 block of S. Pulaski when he pulled a gun and demanded the driver not stop driving, demanding she blow through multiple red lights. Pulled out a gun, and pulled a gun, are not the same verb. Demanded the driver not stop driving, and demanding she blow through multiple red lights, are both in that police sentence. It reported the driver, a 35-year-old woman, stopped on South Pulaski and escaped through her driver's side window, worried the man, identified as 36-year-old Quentin Lewis, was going to attack her. An earlier version of this CBS Chicago page, by Sara Tenenbaum, updated at 11:27 a.m. CST, said the man climbed out of one of the bus's windows and did not say the driver did. The 5:25 p.m. text says the driver escaped through her driver's side window. The driver is not named. It reported Keith Hill, president of the union representing CTA bus drivers, said she is recovering, and it quotes him: "She's doing good. She's taking this hard mentally." It reported Hill said that once she was off her bus she got on another bus to call for help. It reported prosecutors say Lewis then got off the bus and into an unlocked, still running car nearby, where police found him with a gun still in his hands. A car, in that sentence, is not a truck.
The Chicago Sun-Times, by Sun-Times Wire, with no clock on the byline, reported Lewis remains behind bars Friday after he boarded bus No. 8611 without paying around 8 p.m. Tuesday at Jackson Boulevard and Pulaski Road, with a gun tucked in the waistband of his shorts, police and prosecutors said. Around 8 p.m. at Jackson and Pulaski, and just before 8:30 p.m. in the 5400 block, on CBS Chicago, are not the same start. It reported he rode about 2 miles until Pulaski Road and 26th Street in Little Village, pointed a gun with an extended magazine at a person who had signaled the driver to pull over, and demanded the driver "go, go, go." It reported that over several minutes and 3 miles he waved the gun and instructed the driver to run red lights, and that as the bus approached 55th Street and Pulaski Road in West Elsdon a passenger yanked the emergency lever, which stopped the bus. It reported the two passengers ran off, and that the driver, a 35-year-old woman, escaped through the driver's side window and ran toward another CTA bus. FOX 32, by Leslie Moreno and Cody King, published November 6, 2026, at 1:08 p.m. CST, reported the incident happened around 8:24 p.m. Tuesday in the 5400 block of South Pulaski Road, according to the Chicago Police Department, and that he boarded near the 2800 block of South Pulaski Road. The Chicago Police Department, in a post dated November 6, 2026, with no clock, says that at approximately 8:01 p.m. he boarded near the 2800 block of S. Pulaski Rd., and that after traveling to the 5500 block of S. Pulaski Rd. the driver escaped through a window. 8:01 p.m., around 8 p.m., around 8:24 p.m., and just before 8:30 p.m. are not the same clock. The 5400 block, the 5500 block, and 55th Street and Pulaski are not the same corner. The department says he brandished a firearm and pointed it toward the back and front of the bus, and that he forced the driver to begin driving, including through red lights. FOX 32 says the bus ran through four red lights before someone pulled the emergency brake, and that the driver, fearing for her safety, jumped out of a window. Four red lights, on FOX 32 and in the Sun-Times narrative, and multiple red lights, on CBS Chicago, and including through red lights, on the department, are not the same count.
What he left in is not one vehicle. The Sun-Times reported that after "aimlessly" yelling and waving the gun, Lewis jumped off the bus, ran to a strip mall, and got into the driver's seat of a Dodge Ram pickup truck left running while its driver was inside a bakery buying bread. It reported police ordered him to drop the gun and get out, and that he placed the truck in reverse, causing it to slam into a police car, and was arrested about 8:25 p.m. It reported a Glock, loaded with one round in the chamber and an unknown amount of live rounds in an extended magazine, was recovered from the Dodge. FOX 32's brief says he entered an unoccupied vehicle and struck a marked police vehicle, and that no injuries were reported. Its later section says he got into a nearby vehicle and fled, that as officers attempted to arrest him he put the vehicle in reverse and struck a marked Chicago police vehicle, and that it remains unclear what injuries, if any, the bus driver sustained, while police said no other passengers were injured. Unoccupied, in the brief, and a nearby vehicle he fled in, in the later section, are not the same sentence. No injuries were reported, and unclear what injuries the driver sustained, are both on that page. The department says officers found him seated inside a vehicle nearby, still holding the firearm, that the vehicle struck the officers' marked CPD vehicle, and that he was in custody within half an hour. Within half an hour, and about 8:25 p.m., are not the same clock. A Dodge Ram left running outside a bakery, an unlocked still-running car on CBS Chicago, an unoccupied vehicle on FOX 32, and a vehicle nearby on the department are not the same description. The Sun-Times does not print the word stolen in that bakery paragraph. The charge lists do.
The charge names are not one list. CBS Chicago says he faces felony charges including armed kidnapping, possessing a stolen vehicle, aggravated unlawful restraint and possession of a weapon as a felon. The Sun-Times says Chicago police said he was charged with kidnapping, possessing a weapon as a felon, unlawful restraint and possession of a stolen vehicle. Kidnapping, and armed kidnapping, are not the same charge name. Unlawful restraint, and aggravated unlawful restraint, are not the same count. FOX 32 lists one count of kidnapping while armed with a firearm, one count of receiving, possessing or selling a stolen vehicle, one count of aggravated unlawful restraint, and one count of possession of a weapon by a felon. The department lists one felony count of Felon in Possession of a Weapon, one felony count of Receive/Possess/Sell Stolen Vehicle, one felony count of Kidnapping/Armed with a Firearm, and one felony count of Aggravated Unlawful Restraint. Possessing a stolen vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, and Receive/Possess/Sell Stolen Vehicle are not the same charge name. Possession of a weapon as a felon, possessing a weapon as a felon, possession of a weapon by a felon, and Felon in Possession of a Weapon are not the same charge name. The Sun-Times says he is a convicted felon with no license to carry a gun or own one, and that the driver and one witness identified him in a photo array. FOX 32 and the department call him a convicted felon and do not print the prior case. CBS Chicago says he has an extensive criminal background dating back to 2014, and that past charges include domestic battery, resisting arrest and illegal possession of a weapon. Past charges, and a convicted felon, are not the same finding. CBS Chicago says he appeared for his detention hearing Thursday and ordered detained. That sentence does not print the word was. The Sun-Times says a judge ordered him detained after an initial hearing Thursday and that he is due back in court Tuesday. It does not print Nov. 10. FOX 32 says the detention hearing was Thursday, Nov. 5, and that he is scheduled to return to court Nov. 10. Tuesday, and Nov. 10, are the same weekday only because Nov. 10, 2026, is a Tuesday. The pages do not print that arithmetic. FOX 32 quotes the CTA: "We applaud their work to swiftly arrest the offender and will continue to support law enforcement officials' efforts to ensure that the offender is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." The same statement says the CTA is sharing available surveillance footage. That is the CTA's sentence. It is not a conviction. The driver is not named. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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