COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A South Side man exposed himself to a CTA bus driver at a Chatham Pizza Hut this week, shoving the woman's head toward his groin, prosecutors said Friday.
Donell Booker, 30, told police "he enjoyed it" and that "he has done this before, usually every day to different women," Assistant State's Attorney Matthew Howroyd said during a bond hearing Friday.
Booker walked into the Pizza Hut at 7931 S. La Salle St. about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday drinking a beer, prosecutors said.
There, he spotted a 46-year-old CTA bus driver in full uniform who had just placed an order and was waiting for her food, according to Howroyd. The woman was on her lunch break.
Booker is accused of grabbing the woman's face and saying, "You miss me, boo," before shoving the woman's head toward his groin and exposing his penis. The two had never met before the attack, prosecutors said.
The CTA driver immediately walked toward the Pizza Hut counter to ask for help, prosecutors said, and Booker followed — rubbing his exposed penis on the woman and groping her.
According to Howroyd, the entire incident is captured clearly on surveillance video.
Booker confessed to the attack when police arrested him in a nearby stairwell about 12:50 p.m. Wednesday — but not before finishing his beer, according to an arrest report. Police said Booker refused to cooperate until they let him drink it.
Booker, of the 4200 block of West 63rd Street, is charged with attempted criminal sexual assault and simple assault. According to his public defender, Booker previously attended Kennedy-King College and worked for UPS.
He appeared in court Friday wearing gray sweatpants and an oversize T-shirt.
Cook County Judge James Brown on Friday set bail at $750,000.
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