The victim was the one who pulled out a knife, but the defendant took it from him and stabbed him repeatedly in what the judge described as a frenzy.
DUBLIN — An Alameda County judge has sentenced a man to 16 years to life in prison in a murder case where the victim pulled out a knife first, only for the defendant to take it and kill him as they rode BART.in the 2019 stabbing death of 49-year-old Oliver T. Williams. He was transferred to the state prison system on April 24 and is currently housed at North Kern State Prison, records show.
“I know I’m supposed to feel lucky and grateful to have had any time with him at all, and I do, but if I’m honest, I also feel cheated,” Williams’ girlfriend, Susan Sarratt, said at the hearing. “We were still at the beginning of our story and there was so many milestones we never got to reach, and I’ll never get to know really what our love would have been like in five, 10, 20 years.”
The men’s paths crossed on a BART train on the early afternoon of Nov. 19, 2019. As the train approached Hayward, they began arguing and fighting after Brim allegedly tried to steal a sleeping passenger’s shoes and Williams intervened. Williams pulled out a knife, only to be disarmed and stabbed to death with his own weapon, according to court records.
While announcing Brim’s sentence, Alameda County Judge Jennifer Madden, who watched the trial, described video of the attack from BART surveillance cameras and said “it still haunts me.”
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