CTA worker accused of beating, tossing man down stairs of subway station, where he was found by police and later pronounced dead

People exit a Blue Line train at the CTA’s Clark/Lake station in the Loop, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 3, 2021. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A CTA worker is accused of brutally beating a man and tossing him down the stairs of a downtown subway station, where he was found by police and later pronounced dead.

Emmett Richardson, 39, faces felony counts of aggravated battery in connection to the attack early Saturday at the LaSalle Street Blue Line station at 150 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago police said.