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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal stabbing attack at a California train station (all times local):


8:40 p.m.


Authorities say a man suspected in the stabbing death of a teenager at an Oakland, California, train station had no weapon when he was arrested on a train a dozen miles away.


Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas says 27-year-old John Lee Cowell was arrested without incident Monday evening aboard an Antioch-bound train at a BART station in Walnut Creek.


At a news conference, Rojas couldn't immediately explain how Cowell managed to board the train but called the public transportation system "porous."


Police say Cowell stabbed 18-year-old Nia Wilson to death Sunday night at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland and wounded her sister.


Authorities haven't supplied a motive for what they say appeared to be an unprovoked and possibly random attack.


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7:50 p.m.


A paroled convict suspected in a deadly stabbing at an Oakland train station has been arrested.


Authorities say an anonymous tip from a Bay Area Rapid Transit rider led them to 27-year-old John Lee Cowell.


He was peacefully arrested aboard an Antioch-bound train Monday night at the Pleasant Hill Station in Walnut Creek, about a dozen miles from Oakland.


A manhunt had been underway since Cowell was identified as the suspect who randomly and fatally stabbed 18-year-old Nia Wilson in the neck and wounded her sister Sunday night at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland.


Authorities say Cowell had served time for second-degree robbery and was released from prison on May 6.


Nia's parents and dozens of others held a vigil at the station Monday night to remember her.


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6:20 p.m.


A vigil is being held at the Oakland train station where a young woman was stabbed to death and her sister wounded in what authorities say was an unprovoked attack.


Dozens of people showed up Monday evening to remember 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed in the neck at the MacArthur BART station on Sunday night.


Authorities are searching for 27-year-old John Cowell, a convicted robber who was paroled from state prison in May.


He's considered armed and dangerous.


At the vigil, Nia's father says the image of his youngest child's body lying under a tarpaulin on the train platform is an image he will never forget and he wants the killer caught.


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4:15 p.m.


The wounded sister of an 18-year-old woman fatally stabbed by a violent felon on parole says they were "blindsided by a maniac."


Lahtifa Wilson, who is 26 years old, told ABC7 News on Monday that the sisters never saw suspect John Cowell or exchanged words with him on the subway before he stabbed Nia Wilson in the neck.


He then attacked and wounded her.
Wilson said she looked back at Cowell after he ran off, and she saw him wiping off his knife.
She said she failed to protect her baby sister, who she described as the "sweetest person on the earth." She says she told Nia she loved her.
Wilson says she was with Nia and another sister and heading home from a family function when Cowell attacked at the MacArthur train station.
Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas said Monday that surveillance video shows 27-year-old Cowell striking the sisters and getting away.
A cousin had previously identified 21-year-old Tashiya Wilson as the wounded sister, but authorities later said Lahtifa Wilson had been hurt.
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1 p.m.
Authorities in Northern California say the man wanted in the fatal stabbing of a teenager at a subway station is a violent felon on parole.
Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas said Monday surveillance video shows 27-year-old John Cowell "struck very rapidly," stabbing 18-year-old Nia Wilson to death and injuring her sister, Latifa Wilson.
Rojas says detectives found a knife at a construction site near the MacArthur train station they believe was used in the attack.
The chiefs says surveillance video shows Cowell attacked the sisters quickly, stabbing them after they exited a train.
He says it was an "unprovoked, vicious attack" and that officials have not determined a motive.
Rojas says surveillance video also shows Cowell fleeing through a parking lot, where he changed his clothes.
The chief says investigators are trying to determine what led to the attack. Rojas says they have no information it was racially motivated, but they are not discarding that factor as a possible motive. The Wilson sisters are black, and Cowell is white.
"Up to this point we don't have any information that was race-motivated, but we can't discard it.," he said.
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12:30 p.m.
Police in Northern California have identified a man suspected of fatally stabbing a teenager at a Northern California train station as 27-year-old John Cowell.
Bay Area Rapid Transit police on Monday released three surveillance video images of Cowell, including one that shows him at MacArthur station Sunday night, when the teenager and her sister were stabbed on a platform after exiting the train.
The photograph shows Cowell wearing a gray and white track suit and carrying a backpack.
BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas described Cowell as "a violent felon who is currently on parole."
Police didn't identify the victims, but their relatives say they were 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who died, and her sister, 21-year-old Tashiya Wilson. Tashiya Wilson was hospitalized.
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10:30 a.m.
A relative of a teen who was fatally stabbed at a Northern California train station says her cousin was returning home after celebrating her dead boyfriend's birthday when she was randomly attacked.
Ebony Monroe said Monday her cousins, 18-year-old Nia Wilson and 21-year-old Tashiya Wilson, were heading home Sunday night on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train after celebrating Wilson's late boyfriend's birthday. He drowned two years ago in a lake.
BART spokesman Jim Allison says a man allegedly attacked the sisters at random as they exited a train at the MacArthur station in Oakland.
Nia Wilson died soon after police arrived, and her sister was taken to a hospital.
Monroe says her cousin graduated from Oakland High School and was a "beautiful person inside and out."
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6:52 a.m.
Authorities say a man fatally stabbed an 18-year-old woman in the neck and wounded her sister as they waited for a train in Oakland.
The stabbings, which appeared to be random, happened Sunday night at the Bay Area Rapid Transit's MacArthur Station.
BART spokesman Jim Allison tells the San Francisco Chronicle one of the victims died soon after police arrived and the second victim was taken to a hospital.
He says police are looking for the suspect fled the station. He is described as a white male in his twenties or thirties with a heavy-set build.
Relative Malika Harris identified the woman who died as her sister, Nia Wilson, who had attended Oakland High.
Official closed the station after the attack. It reopened at 4 a.m. Monday.
 
If the boyfriend had been given swimming lessons. This never would have happened.

Life is nothing more than a whole string of chain reactions.
 
Hat tip to Buffettgirl.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/23/cops-hunt-violent-felon-in-deadly-oakland-subway-stabbing.html
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Police in Oakland have identified the suspect they believe attacked two sisters with a knife, killing one and hospitalizing the other, at a train station Sunday night.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police released three surveillance video images of 27-year-old John Cowell, including one that shows him at the McArthur station in north Oakland when the attack occurred.

BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas described Cowell as a "violent felon who is currently on parole" and noted that he had recently been cited for fare evasion. The chief described the attack as "unprovoked" and "vicious" and said officials have not determined a motive.

Authorities have not released the victims' identities but relatives identified them as 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who died, and her sister, 21-year-old Tashiya Wilson. Ansar Mohammed, who identified himself as the girls' father, told KTVU that one of his daughters called him, crying hysterically, and told him to get to the MacArthur station.
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Ebony Monroe, a cousin of the victims, said she was among several relatives who went to the train station Sunday night after hearing about the attack. She said the Wilson sisters were returning home in Oakland after celebrating Nia's late boyfriend's birthday. He drowned in a lake two years ago, Monroe said.

Monroe, 24, said her cousin attended Oakland High School and loved her family, dancing and makeup.

"She was a beautiful person inside and out, and she didn't deserve it," Monroe said.

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A man who witnessed the attack told family members the suspect came out of nowhere and slit Nia's throat while she was sitting down in the train and that he stabbed Tashiya as she tried to stop him, she said.
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"The senseless and violent stabbing of two young women on a BART train platform last night has shaken our community," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. "Every parent who saw the father of Nia Wilson grieve for his daughter is heartbroken by this horrific act."

Officials closed the station after the attack. It reopened at 4 a.m. Monday. KTVU reported that police recovered the suspected murder weapon from a nearby construction site at approximately 8 a.m. Monday.
 
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The stabbing Sunday night on a BART platform in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old woman and injured her older sister was the third possible homicide on the transit system in five days, but agency officials did not immediately alert the public about the first two cases.

The previous incidents, which occurred Saturday and Wednesday and left two men dead, were disclosed Monday after The Chronicle began asking about them. The agency has in the past been criticized for withholding information about crimes on trains and in stations.

BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said in an interview that his department had not been in a position to talk about the prior two cases until Sunday. That’s when the first victim’s autopsy linked his death to injuries from an altercation on BART, and when the second victim died in a hospital, Rojas said.
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At a news conference Monday, he said, “We just wanted to make sure that we were giving you all the information and being as transparent as possible. ... Because, this is really an anomaly. This doesn’t happen on BART. It’s rare that we have a homicide, so of course this is ramped up to the highest priority when you have three deaths.”

The Chronicle learned of the prior incidents after Sunday’s slaying of teenager Nia Wilson at the MacArthur Station. According to BART, 27-year-old John Lee Cowell attacked her and her sister, 26-year-old Lahtifa Wilson, at 9:36 p.m. in a “random,” unprovoked attack as they stepped off a train to transfer. Cowell and the women had boarded the train in Concord.
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BART said the stabbing had no connection to an incident that occurred just after 1 a.m. Saturday, when a man riding BART at Bay Fair Station in San Leandro was punched by an assailant, causing him to fall and fatally strike his head on the pavement outside the train car.

The victim, identified by BART as 47-year-old Don Stevens, a transient, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Sunday with his family present, Rojas said. Police initially thought Stevens might have fallen due to a medical problem, but saw the attack on surveillance video.

The agency on Sunday released surveillance images of the assailant to other law enforcement agencies in a “be-on-the-lookout” bulletin, and released the same images publicly on Monday. The attacker is wanted for murder.

BART installed working cameras on all trains after The Chronicle revealed in January 2016, in the wake of a fatal shooting on a BART train, that most of the cameras on trains were decoys.

Earlier Monday, the Alameda County coroner’s office declined to provide Stevens’ name, saying BART had asked that the information be withheld from the public.

In the potential third homicide on BART, a man who was involved in an altercation Wednesday afternoon at a station in Pleasant Hill was found dead Friday night in his bed at his Pittsburg home, authorities said. The victim was 51-year-old Gerald Bisbee, according to the Contra Costa County coroner’s office.

BART said Bisbee was attacked by a 20-year-old man named Abdul Bey, who was quickly arrested and has been jailed in Martinez since. Bisbee, who suffered a bloody lip and small cut to the back of his knee, did not initially seek medical treatment, officials said.

He felt bad the next day, though, and visited a hospital, which treated and released him, BART said. On Friday, Bisbee’s loved ones grew concerned that they hadn’t heard from him and asked police to check on his welfare. That’s when he was found dead.

Bisbee died from an infection from the cut on his leg, Rojas said, a determination the chief said was made after an autopsy Sunday. He said BART was “working with the (Contra Costa County) district attorney’s office to make sure” the evidence supports homicide charges. Bey was jailed on suspicion of battery and resisting arrest as well as on a $15,000 warrant.

BART officials noted that Bey’s arrest was reported on a daily log that the agency distributes to reporters and others.
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"San Francisco area man with a history of violence and mental illness is guilty of the random stabbing death of an 18-year-old woman at a commuter train platform two years ago, a killing with racial undertones that prompted rallies and vigils.

An Alameda County jury announced Tuesday it found John Lee Cowell, 29, guilty of murdering Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland as she was returning home from a family gathering with her two sisters. Jurors also found Cowell guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of Wilson's sister, who survived severe injuries to her neck.

The jury also convicted Cowell of the special circumstances count of lying in wait. The jury reached the verdict hours after starting deliberations.

Cowell will face a second trial to determine his sanity. If found insane, he would be sent to a psychiatric hospital."

L I N K !!
 
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