Overview
- An arraignment is set for Dec. 19 at noon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura K. McNally, and Reed remains detained in federal custody without bond.
- Prosecutors allege Reed used an ignited bottle to set 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on fire aboard a Blue Line train on Nov. 17; she remains in critical condition at Stroger Hospital.
- A separate count accuses Reed of attempting to burn Chicago City Hall on Nov. 14, with officials noting the fire outside the building did not spread.
- Investigators point to surveillance showing Reed filling a bottle with gasoline at a Garfield Park gas station shortly before boarding at the Kedzie stop.
- Cook County prosecutors also charged Reed in a March 27 CTA incident involving alleged assaults on two passengers, while reporting has highlighted repeated curfew violations during his electronic monitoring.