FEDS: Chicago Man Who Lit Blue Line Traveler on Fire a Terrorist | Crime Alert 12.12.25

Federal authorities charged a man who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit train with terrorism. Oregon mom arrested after police find her low-functioning, non-verbal 11-year-old son unsupervised in a home filled with excrement, rotting garbage, and piles of trash. A missing woman found dead in a trash can, her husband admits to putting her there nearly two years ago.  A teen driver intentionally caused a 12-car pileup up at a Las Vegas traffic light last week, killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of the other vehicles. Sydney Sumner reports. 

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
Federal authority stepped in on Wednesday and charged a man
who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit
train with terrorism. The federal charge against fifty year old
Lawrence Reed carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The twenty six year old woman was hospitalized in critical

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condition after the attack on Chicago's Blue Line train downtown.
The incident took place just before nine thirty pm Monday,
as the train pulled into the Clark Lake station. The
suspect poured gasoline on the woman and lit it. He
fled the train ahead of the woman engulfed in flames,
who has not been named. Bystanders had extinguished the blaze
by the time first responders arrived, but the victim was

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severely burned on her body and head. Although witnesses said
the suspect in the woman argued before the incident, federal
court records say Reed doused her with gasoline from a
plastic bottle without comment, and tried to ignite it as
she tried to fight him off. Surveillance video showed her
running from one end of the train car to another
before Reid lit the bottle he carried the gasoline in

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and used it to set the woman on fire. Chicago
police said Reid made incriminating statements after he was taken
into custody and had burns on his right hand. Reid
was a ratic during his initial court appearance on Wednesday,
claiming he was guilty, a Chinese citizen and that he
wanted to represent himself. Federal officials complained at a news
conference that Reid should have been in jail because of

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his violent criminal history and his pending criminal cases, although
they declined to say what those were. Atf Special Agent
Christopher Amman said quote, Reid had plenty of second chances
by the criminal justice system, and as a result, you
have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life.
US attorney Andrew Boutrow said that if the victim dies,

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Reid would be eligible for the death penalty because he's
been charged in federal court. An Oregon woman was arrested
last week after police found her eleven year old son,
who was low functioning and nonverbal, unsupervised in the home
filled with excrement, wrought garbage, and piles of clothes and trash.
Ruby Atseyana Gadina Vellador, thirty two, was charged with three

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counts of criminal mistreatment. Police were initially called when the
boy did not go to school that day and a
nine year old sibling was not picked up after school.
A family member asked for a welfare check, but no
one answered the door, and the family member requested to
file a missing persons report. Later, a neighbor called to
say she could hear the boy moving around inside the apartment. Again,

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no one answered the door when police responded, but this
time they made an emergency entrance. They found feces smeared
on the walls, floor, and an air conditioning unit, and
the home smelled overwhelmingly of urine feces and rotted garbage.
The boy was sitting naked on a couch watching videos
on his phone. His mother was not in the room,
but police found her in another room, not wearing pants.

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Police said Gadeina Vellador got dressed and was taken into custody.
It's unclear where either of the children are now. More
crime and justice news. After this, a sixty five year
old Illinois woman was found dead wrapped in plastic in
a garbage bin in a backyard shed and Her husband
has been charged with concealing her death for nearly two years.

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Family members living in Texas sought a welfare check for
Nancy Corbin, saying they hadn't heard from her in that
time and feared her husband, fifty nine year old Adam Corbyn,
may have harmed her. Adam Corbin first told responding officers
that his wife was in Florida, then that she was
staying with friends. Later, he said she was in the
home and brought out a woman who claimed to be her. Officers, however,

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quickly determined she was impersonating the missing woman. That woman
ultimately told police she had lived with the Corbyins and
Nancy suffered from significant health issues. Adam Corbyn told her
he found his wife dead in bed one morning and
put her body in a blue trash bin, poured chemicals
on it, and left it outside for nearly two years.
Police said surveillance video showed Corbin moving the trash bin

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into a shed after police left. Inside the shed, officers
found human remains in the trash bin. The Sangamon County
Cordner identified the remains as Nancy Corbin. Corbin admitted to
moving the body after police visited the home and admitted
to receiving state's payment as his wife's caretaker long after
she was dead. During their initial visit to the home,

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officers saw multiple firearms and plane view and then found
that Corvin did not have a firearm owner's identification card,
and during a follow up visit, he admitted he was
a convicted felon. Police seized seven firearms. Corbyn has been
charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a weapon
by a convicted felon, one count of abuse of a
corpse removal without authorization, and one count of concealment of

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a death. Las Vegas prosecutors told a court last week
that a teenage driver intentionally caused a twelve car pile up,
killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of
the other vehicles. They said they planned a charge nineteen
year old Jose Guttia is with murder. Clark County District
Attorney Steve Wolson told the court, quote, we believe he

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was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, and therefore we believe,
based upon all the evidence to date, including a very
descriptive video, that his actions were intentional, which gives rise
to a charge of murder. Adeline Duran Rincon, twenty and
Edward Garcia, thirty eight, were pronounced dead at the scene
of the crash last Tuesday, and another person was hospitalized

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with life threatening injuries. Rincon was a passenger in Gutierras's
Infinity Coup. Wolfson said Gutierras's view was not restricted and
he did not appear to break as he approached a
traffic light at a high rate of speed. Witnesses told
police he appeared to be traveling around one hundred miles
per hour. Gutierres was charged with two counts of murder,
one count of attempted murder, reckless driving, and battery. For

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