--- description: A Chicago man was charged with battery after beating a passenger and a bus driver on a CTA bus with a bag of frozen chicken. title: Man Attacked Woman With Frozen Chicken After She Wouldn’t Flirt With Him image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75f60cd07903e93a/6988aa890a4a224ac69cbb29/showmugshot.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Man Attacked Woman With Frozen Chicken After She Wouldn’t Flirt With Him, Officials Say by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 18, 2016 9:23 PM CUT  Cook County Sheriff's Office by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 18, 2016 9:23 PM CUT A Chicago man was charged with [battery and aggravated battery to a transit authority](https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161018/downtown/city-workers-who-stole-10k-with-forged-payroll-checks-fired-watchdog-says "undefined") after beating a passenger and a bus driver on a CTA bus with a bag of frozen chicken, authorities said Caleb Russell, 27, tried to flirt with a woman who did not reciprocate his attention, DNAinfo reports. He responded by attacking her with a bag of frozen [chicken](http://time.com/4475048/which-came-first-chicken-egg/ "undefined"). The bus driver stopped the vehicle and tried to intervene, so Russell redirected his attack to the bus driver, who suffered a broken nose and jaw and lost a tooth. Russell has run into trouble on public transit before: In 2014, he was arrested for making a false bomb threat on a bus. \[[DNAinfo](https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161018/downtown/city-workers-who-stole-10k-with-forged-payroll-checks-fired-watchdog-says "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4535918/chicago-attack-bus-frozen-chicken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4535918/chicago-attack-bus-frozen-chicken/"},"headline":"Man Attacked Woman With Frozen Chicken After She Wouldn’t Flirt With Him, Officials Say","datePublished":"2016-10-18T21:23:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:16:12.148Z","description":"He swung the chicken like a weapon","url":"https://time.com/4535918/chicago-attack-bus-frozen-chicken/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75f60cd07903e93a/6988aa890a4a224ac69cbb29/showmugshot.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75f60cd07903e93a/6988aa890a4a224ac69cbb29/showmugshot.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"showmugshot","caption":"","creditText":"Cook County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4535918/chicago-attack-bus-frozen-chicken/","name":"Man Attacked Woman With Frozen Chicken After She Wouldn’t Flirt With Him, Officials Say"}}]}] ```