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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/bethany-magee-26-identified-as-   
   chicago-woman-set-on-fire-on-cta-train-by-serial-thug-with-72-arrests/   
      
   The 26-year-old woman who cops said was set on fire by a lunatic with a   
   lengthy rap sheet on a Chicago L train earlier this month has been   
   identified as Bethany MaGee.   
      
   “It is devastating that a career criminal with 72 PRIOR ARRESTS is now   
   accused of attacking 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on Chicago’s L train, and   
   setting her on fire,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on social   
   media Sunday.   
      
   “This would never have happened if this thug had been behind bars. Yet   
   Chicago lets repeat offenders roam the streets,” Duffy said of suspect   
   Lawrence Reed, 50, who is facing federal terrorism charges in connection   
   with the senseless fire attack.   
      
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   “Chicago’s carelessness is putting the American people at risk. No one   
   should ever have to fear for their life on the subway,” Duffy said,   
   lambasting the Windy City’s soft-on-crime policies that let a dangerous   
   convicted felon roam free.   
      
   Reed approached MaGee, who was sitting with her back to the crazed firebug   
   on the train in downtown Chicago around 9 p.m. on Nov. 17, according to   
   the criminal complaint.   
      
   He then removed the cap from a bottle of liquid, pouring it all over her   
   head and body. MaGee fled for her life, but Reed caught up with her and   
   set the bottle on fire, which fell to the floor, but he allegedly   
   retrieved it and used it to set her ablaze.   
      
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   She was engulfed in flames but somehow managed to exit the train before   
   collapsing on the platform, where good Samaritans stepped in to help her   
   and she was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, according to the   
   complaint.   
      
   Reed was spotted on surveillance footage at a Chicago gas station   
   purchasing gasoline, which he put into a plastic beverage bottle roughly   
   20 minutes before the attack.   
      
   He was arrested the next day and hit with federal terrorism charges, which   
   could make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.   
      
   Reed has 22 prior arrests since 2016 alone, and 53 criminal cases in Cook   
   County dating back to 1993 — nine of them felonies for which he pleaded   
   guilty, officials said.   
      
   However, he’s only served time twice, spending just 2.5 years behind bars   
   in total, according to CWB Chicago.   
      
   According to court records viewed by the outlet, Reed was released with an   
   electronic ankle monitor in August after knocking a social worker out cold   
   at a psychiatric hospital where he had been committed. He left her with   
   “likely optic nerve damage and a concussion, causing her to experience   
   memory issues, headaches, and daily nausea,” a detention petition viewed   
   by the outlet read in part.   
      
   Prosecutors asked Reed to remain locked up, but a judge overruled them,   
   leaving him with free rein for much of the week.   
      
   At a hearing on Friday, prosecutors asked the court to keep him in   
   custody, arguing he “presents a clear danger and persistent threat of   
   terror to the community,” ABC News reported.   
      
   “The state court system has been unable to contain defendant’s violent   
   crimes, and federal intervention is now needed,” US Attorney for the   
   Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros wrote in the government’s   
   detention motion.   
      
   “Lawrence Reed had no business being on the streets given his violent   
   criminal history and his pending criminal cases,” ATF Special Agent-in-   
   Charge Christopher Amon said at a press conference following Friday’s   
   hearing.   
      
   “Reed had plenty of second chances by the criminal justice system and as a   
   result you have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life.”   
      
   He remains behind bars at the Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center,   
   according to court documents.   
      
   Reed’s deranged behavior was on full display at his initial court   
   appearance Wednesday, during which he caused frequent disruptions by   
   “singing, babbling, and instructing the Court not to speak to him,”   
   Boutros wrote.   
      
   He also attempted to interrupt the proceedings by repeatedly shouting “I   
   plead guilty!” as the judge tried to read him his rights, and repeatedly   
   yelled over the judge that he was a Chinese citizen and wanted to   
   represent himself, according to local reports.   
      
   The CTA attack has drawn grim parallels to September’s brutal caught-on-   
   camera knife murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who was killed while   
   minding her own business on a Blue Line train in Charlotte, North   
   Carolina.   
      
   Zarutska was savagely butchered by Decarlos Brown Jr. 34, a diagnosed   
   schizophrenic, who was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released   
   him on a “written promise” to show up for court — despite a nearly 20-year   
   history of violence and mental illness.   
      
      
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