Man speaks out at hearing over fatal CTA stabbing: ‘I didn’t want to kill him’

Man speaks out at hearing over fatal CTA stabbing: ‘I didn’t want to kill him’

A Cook County judge on Tuesday ordered pretrial detention for a 66-year-old man from Broadview accused of fatally stabbing a fellow CTA Blue Line train passenger who asked to share his cigarette. In court, prosecutors alleged that the June 25 stabbing aboard the train occurred after Lawrence Strother was asked by the victim “for a drag of his cigarette,” which Strother refused. But before Judge Rivanda Doss could rule on detention, Strother gave…