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   (CNN) — The Chicago man who was charged with murder in the fatal shootings   
   of four Chicago train riders earlier this week was ordered held without bond   
   at his first court appearance Wednesday.   
      
   Rhanni S. Davis, 30, was charged Tuesday with four counts of first-degree   
   murder, the Forest Park Police Department said in a news release.   
      
   He appeared in a Maywood court Wednesday wearing a tan Cook County jumpsuit   
   with shackles around his hands and ankles.   
      
   Prosecutors told the court evidence will show Davis shot one victim twice in   
   the head and back, shot a second person in the side of the face and the arm   
   and then shot a third victim in the back of the head. Davis moved to the next   
   train car and    
   approached the fourth victim from behind. The victim raised his hands in a   
   defensive posture before Davis fired, prosecutors said.   
      
   Prosecutors told the court Davis has a history of criminal activity, including   
   a disorderly conduct offense in 2020, and two other prior arrests that were   
   both dismissed. Davis’ attorney, Robert Fox, told the court he had a Firearm   
   Owner’s    
   Identification card, training in security and home health care, and no prior   
   convictions. Davis recently worked at a local Taco Bell, the attorney added.   
      
   Cook County Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Ciaccia-Lezza said the facts alleged   
   by the state were “absolutely horrific and appalling.”   
      
   “This defendant defines violent,” Ciaccia-Lezza said. “The public would   
   not be safe with any amount of movement by this defendant.”   
      
   Davis is due back in court on September 27.   
      
   The court hearing came two days after the mass shooting early Monday morning   
   targeted four people who appeared to be sleeping on the train. Davis was   
   detained about 90 minutes after the shooting was reported around 5:30 a.m. on   
   the Blue Line train    
   heading to the Forest Park suburb west of downtown.   
      
   The attack raised further concerns about the safety of public transit systems   
   in American cities like Chicago and New York. Ridership levels plunged during   
   the Covid pandemic and have had a muted recovery since, in part due to   
   perceptions of disorder and    
   crime.   
      
   Still, police emphasized Tuesday they believe this was an isolated and random   
   attack. There is no identified motive at this time, Forest Park Police   
   Department Det. Lt. Dan Pater said during the news conference.   
      
   “Allegedly, this man came onto a train while people were sleeping … and   
   pumped bullets into their bodies,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx   
   said Tuesday. “We want answers. Right now, we don’t have an answer as to   
   why anyone would engage    
   in such a heinous, heinous act. But as it stands … we have enough for the   
   purposes of charging first-degree murder.”   
      
   Police release surveillance video of suspect   
   The early morning shooting happened in two train cars, where three victims   
   were shot in one car and the fourth in another, with a total of six rounds,   
   police said.   
      
   Surveillance video was instrumental in identifying the suspect, police said.   
      
   Forest Park police released two surveillance videos Wednesday showing Davis   
   casually walking in a train station.   
      
   The first video, from 5:04 a.m. CT Monday, shows a Blue Line train arriving at   
   the Harlem station when a man in a gray outfit jumps out of the moving train,   
   falls onto the platform, and then gets up and hustles away. After the train   
   comes to a full stop,    
   a person wearing a black shirt, black ski mask and black backpack then walks   
   in the same direction.   
      
   The second video, taken at about 5:06 a.m. CT, shows the same man in the ski   
   mask casually walking out of a train station.   
      
   Three of the victims were identified as 60-year-old Adrian Collins,   
   28-year-old Simeon Bihesi and 64-year-old Margaret A. Miller, the Cook County   
   Medical Examiner’s office told CNN on Tuesday. The other victim was a man in   
   his 50s, but no additional    
   identifying information was available as police said they are still trying to   
   reach the man’s family.   
      
      
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