San Francisco: BART station reopens after fatal stabbing

SAN FRANCISCO — BART service resumed Sunday night after a deadly stabbing incident closed the twenty fourth Road Mission station for greater than 4 hours, authorities mentioned.

In keeping with a assertion by BART Police Chief Ed Alvarez, officers responded to the station for a report of a potential stabbing round 1:40 p.m.

A evaluation of surveillance digital camera footage confirmed two males arguing close to an elevator round that point earlier than one man stabs the opposite. The person who was stabbed managed to stroll down the steps into the station earlier than collapsing on the platform, Alvarez mentioned.

BART workers responded to the sufferer with life-saving measures, however the man was pronounced useless on the scene. His id was not instantly accessible Sunday night from the San Francisco coroner’s workplace, pending next-of-kin notification.

Alvarez mentioned BART police had been working with San Francisco police investigators to collect extra info and detain the stabbing suspect, who fled the scene.

MUNI supplied mutual-aid service between BART’s sixteenth Road Mission, twenty fourth Road Mission and Glen Park stations utilizing its Nos. 14, 15R and 49 buses.

The station closed to riders till it was reopened shortly after 6 p.m., BART spokesman James Allison mentioned.

The stabbing occurred per week after an individual getting into San Francisco’s Embarcadero BART station trackway delayed Transbay Tube practice visitors for greater than two hours and two days after an harm capturing noon Friday aboard a Daly Metropolis-bound practice that had simply pulled into Oakland’s Lake Merritt station. The sufferer, a 21-year-old man, was later hospitalized.

Examine again for updates.

Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.

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