Telly Virgin (pictured left) pleaded guilty today to charges of firing at a Metra train in an attempt to kill the engineer as part of a murder-for-hire plan. Theodore Howard (pictured right) gave Virgin crack and cash in exchange for shooting his ex-wife either at their son's day care center or aboard the Metra train she engineered.

In Virgin’s guilty plea, he says Howard drove him to the Metra train station on June 6, 2007 to carry out the shooting. Virgin shot at the moving train believing Brown was operating it. more ›

When you hear the phrase “train attacked by hit man,” you might think of John Wayne heroically defending rail cargo from villains wearing kerchiefs or perhaps (if you’re feeling more obscure) Steven Segal’s unfortunate appearance in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory [Ed.'s Note - "Unfortunate"? I beg to differ. - MG]. What you don’t immediately think of is our fair Metra. But back in 2007, according to charges revealed yesterday, the Metra was the site of a bizarre marriage-turned-murder-attempt worthy of a bad action movie. more ›