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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Matthew Hendrickson

Teen charged in fatal shooting on Red Line may have been threatened with knife, his lawyer says

Sixteen-year-old Charles Carter is charged as an adult in the first-degree murder of a passenger on a Red Line train Aug. 6. (Sun-Times file)

A 16-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting a man on a CTA Red Line train last summer may have been acting in self-defense, his attorney suggested Wednesday.

Cook County prosecutors acknowledged that 29-year-old Diunte Moon was holding “a very small pocketknife” when he was shot multiple times by Charles Carter on Aug. 6 near the 79th Street stop.

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