A man accused of killing four people on an L train in the Chicago area has to go to court

MAYWOOD, Illinois — A 30-year-old man accused of killing four people while they slept on a Chicago-area commuter train was expected in bail court Wednesday.

The Labor Day shooting occurred before 5:30 a.m. aboard Chicago's L Line, a train traveling near the Blue Line terminus in the suburb of Forest Park, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. Rhanni S. Davis of Chicago was arrested later Monday on another Chicago Transit Authority train line and charged Tuesday with four counts of first-degree murder.

Investigators have not yet been able to determine a motive.

“The question of why may never be answered,” Cook County Attorney Kim Foxx said at a press conference Tuesday.

She called the shooting a “horrific, heinous and inexplicable act of violence” and said more details would emerge during Wednesday's court hearing.

Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins told the Associated Press that the victims probably did not even see the shooter because they were shot at close range while they were sleeping.

Margaret Miller, 64, and three men, including Simeon Bihesi, 28, and Adrian Collins, 60, were shot to death, according to the Cook County coroner's office. All of their addresses were listed as unknown. The name of the fourth person has not yet been released because police were still working to notify relatives.

A preliminary police investigation found that the victims were in two different cars as the Blue Line train headed toward Forest Park. The Blue Line operates 24 hours a day, stretching from this suburb through downtown Chicago to O'Hare International Airport, both underground and above ground.

Police later found Davis using video footage, Hoskins said.

“This was a very random, isolated incident,” CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. said Tuesday evening.

Public records did not list Davis' phone number. Messages sent to a listed email address were not returned. Forest Park police and the Cook County District Attorney's Office did not respond to messages about Davis' legal representation. The Cook County Public Defender's Office did not immediately respond to a message Wednesday.

Davis was scheduled to appear in court in suburban Maywood at noon.