Posted on 07/23/2018 11:24:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A BART passenger’s tip ended a daylong police manhunt for the violent felon suspected of fatally stabbing a BART passenger and injuring her sister in a sudden, unprovoked attack on the MacArthur Station platform in Oakland.
Nia Wilson, 18, died on the platform Sunday night after a man identified as 27-year-old transient John Lee Cowell approached and quickly stabbed her and Lahtifa Wilson, 26, both in the neck, police said. The older sister was hospitalized overnight.
“In my close to 30 years of police experience, it was probably one of the most vicious attacks that I’ve seen,” BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said at a news conference Monday.
For Cowell, 21 hours on the lam ended almost exactly where they began: H
e was located on another BART train about 6:30 p.m. Monday, after at least two passengers tipped off police that they had spotted the suspected killer.
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Pic of demonstration
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She and her sisters were on their way home from a family function, listening to music on a train and keeping to themselves. They stepped off their train at MacArthur and were just about to transfer to another train. One sister got on board and the other two waited as a woman with a child in a stroller exited the train. That’s when they were “blindsided by a maniac.”
“For what? I don’t know why,” she said, standing with a bandage on the right side of her neck. “And I looked back, and he was wiping off his knife and stood at the stairs and just looked — and from there on, I was just caring for my sister. I was in shock... I didn’t know I was cut because I was paying more attention to my sister. But he just stood there, like it was nothing.”
She said her sister yelled out for her: “She just yelled my name: ‘Tifa, Tifa, Tifa,’ and I said, ‘I got you, baby, I got you.’”
“He didn’t know us, we didn’t know him,” Wilson said. Hundreds of people gathered for a vigil Monday evening at MacArthur BART Station, bringing flowers, candles and incense. Some held signs demanding justice for the two sisters.
Solena Sampson squeezed her 16-year-old daughter as she paid her respects. Sampson said she didn’t know Wilson or her family, but as a mother knew the fear of having a child that didn’t come home. “It could have been anybody’s daughter,” she said. By early evening, the event evolved into a protest of sorts, with attendees decrying the violence against the Wilson sisters and other youth in Oakland.
Daryle Allums, Wilson’s godfather and leader of Oakland’s Stop Killing Our Kids group said Wilson’s death had shaken up the whole town.
At the news conference, Allums addressed concerns that the attack might be racially motivated. Cowell is white and the Wilson sisters are black. He urged the African American community to “stand down right now” and avoid jumping to conclusions. ....
Thanks for posting. Prayers for the family and that the be sheltered from those who wish them harm, or wish to profit from their loss.
Prayers for the sisters and their loved ones.
“Transient” actually means “crazy dude who should be in a mental hospital.”
Yes. Prayers up.
That’s one of Mad Maxine’s people, transient or not.
...and would be if some insane judges hadn’t set the threshold too high. Is he a threat to himself or others yet?”
Yup. If he showed up at the border with a kid, she’d keep them together.
““Transient” actually means “crazy dude who should be in a mental hospital.””
And here in the Bay Area, they are all over the place. And thanks to relatively new CA law, the cops really can’t touch them. I am up at 2:30 a.m. because one of the security cameras we have at commercial building we own here, just alerted me to the presence of a bum on a bike who has decided to sleep in an outside hallway. Unfortunately, now, he left too quickly, so I won’t be able to send the police to “ask him to leave!”
This
Hits close to home
My dd was threatened by a nut with a knife on a subway months ago and still has PTSD
Bay Area Rabid Transient.
We don’t have any more of those do we? It’s everyone fend for themselves now isn’t it?
The environmental zealots who believe we’ll all give up cars and switch to mass transit are in serious denial. I couldn’t imagine exposing my family (or myself) to this on a daily basis. I understand this is how most people travel in cities; I also understand why so many people left NYC and built up northern NJ after WWII (when the GI Bill provided some socio-economic mobility that hadn’t been so widely available before). Carpooling and HOV lanes have fallen flat here in NJ; people have no misconceptions about the dangers of too many people too close together.
Exactly
Are you sure. In this case it will mean "white conservative that was hired by PDJT" Got to be careful jumping to conclusions here.......
Some punk named Hogg rallying for strict knife control, showing up any minute. Nevermind.
Bring back the death penalty.
“Bay Area Rabid Transient”
Very punny. You win the contest for best play on words.
It’s Oakland California, they’re into that stuff.
(otherwise this guy would have never been loose)
they are really trying to make this a ‘racial hate-crime’ here on the local news last night. ..
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