Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit say a homeless man pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving train at a downtown San Francisco station. The woman hit her head on the BART train and died later at a hospital. Police arrested a 49-year-old man they described as transient shortly after the woman was pushed at around 11 p.m. Monday.
FILE - Bay Area Rapid Transit passengers wait for a BART train to depart, Oct. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. A homeless man allegedly pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving San Francisco Bay Area commuter train, killing her, police said Tuesday, July 2, 2024. SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man allegedly pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving San Francisco Bay Area commuter train, killing her, police said Tuesday.
Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, said in a statement that the woman hit her head on the train and fell onto the platform in downtown San Francisco. She died at a local hospital. The woman was pushed shortly after 11 p.m. Monday at the Powell Street station, authorities said. A 49-year-old man described by police as transient was booked into jail early Tuesday.Homicides are rare on BART, which travels throughout much of the Bay Area. This is the first homicide of the year., a passenger died in March after being pushed into an oncoming subway train in an unprovoked attack by a person experiencing mental health issues.
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