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.”
Bay Area Rabid Transient.
Some punk named Hogg rallying for strict knife control, showing up any minute. Nevermind.
Bring back the death penalty.
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. ..
they are really trying to make this a ‘racial hate-crime’ here on the local news last night. ..
Those two things don't quite go together.