A 55-year-old charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man on a CTA bus in the Chatham neighborhood was denied bail in a Sunday court hearing.

       Van Crocker is accused of stabbing a 66-year-old man around 4:30 p.m. Friday on a CTA bus near 8600 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

       According to prosecutors, after paying the bus fare and standing in front of the victim, Crocker pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the chest.

       The bus driver notified police. Officers arrived at the scene and recovered the knife from the defendant’s hand, prosecutors said. The stabbing was captured on CTA surveillance video.

       The 66-year-old man was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

       Crocker made admissions that he wanted to kill the man when he stabbed him, prosecutors said. Crocker and the man did not know each other.

       Crocker’s public defender said he has a GED from Hirsch Metropolitan High School. She argued that Crocker has mental health issues and did not have the capacity during the stabbing or during interrogation by officers and was not checked for mental health conditions by officers.

       Judge Arthur Willis denied Crocker bail, citing a threat posed by him to people in the community.

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