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Article: Witnesses testify bike messenger was waiting to attack pedestrian
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Matthew Givens nursed a grudge after being knocked from his bike
and, despite pleas from bystanders, stalked the man the next day and
pushed him down a flight of stairs at Union Station, killing him,
jurors were told as Givens' trial got under way Tuesday.
"I said he didn't mean to do it. He said b---- you don't know what
you are talking about," testified Nadine Lewis, a security guard. "He
had a lock and he was trying to hit the victim, if I didn't move
back, he would have hit me."
Givens, a bike messenger, is accused of pushing Keith P. Radloff
down a flight of stairs on the Madison Street entrance of Union
Station on Dec. 15, 1999, as he tried to make his train.
The day before, Givens had ...