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Related: About this forumCops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 23/07/18
Jesse Williams: We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.Police Arrest Man Accused of Fatally Stabbing 18-Year-Old Woman, Wounding Her Sister at Oakland BART Station
Nia Wilson, left, is seen in an image posted to her Facebook page in December 2017. At right, John Lee Cowell is seen in a bodycam image from an interaction with authorities on July 18, 2018, released by the BART Police Department on July 23, 2018.
POSTED 6:42 PM, JULY 23, 2018, BY ERIKA MARTIN, UPDATED AT 07:11PM, JULY 23, 2018
A manhunt Monday ended in the arrest of a man suspected of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old woman and wounding her sister in an unprovoked attack at a BART station in Oakland the third death in the transit system in a week.
John Lee Cowell, 27, boarded the same train as slain victim Nia Wilson and her two sisters at the Concord Station Sunday night, Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas said in a Monday news conference.
When all four of them got off six stops later at the MacArthur Station, where the sisters planned to transfer, Cowell is accused of very rapidly launching an attack on Nia and her 26-year-old sister Lahtifa Wilson. Still on the platform, he stabbed both several times with a knife, including in the neck, Rojas said.
In my close to 30 years of police experience, it was one of the most vicious attacks that Ive seen, the chief said Monday.
Nias sister Nishiya came to her aid immediately, applying pressure to her neck wound, but the 18-year-old died at the scene. Lahtifa was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was in stable condition on Monday.
There was no form of dispute leading up to the incident, according to Rojas, who called it an unprovoked, unwarranted, vicious attack.
https://ktla.com/2018/07/23/police-seek-man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-18-year-old-woman-wounding-her-sister-at-oakland-bart-station/
Nia Wilson, left, is seen in an image posted to her Facebook page in December 2017. At right, John Lee Cowell is seen in a bodycam image from an interaction with authorities on July 18, 2018, released by the BART Police Department on July 23, 2018.
POSTED 6:42 PM, JULY 23, 2018, BY ERIKA MARTIN, UPDATED AT 07:11PM, JULY 23, 2018
A manhunt Monday ended in the arrest of a man suspected of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old woman and wounding her sister in an unprovoked attack at a BART station in Oakland the third death in the transit system in a week.
John Lee Cowell, 27, boarded the same train as slain victim Nia Wilson and her two sisters at the Concord Station Sunday night, Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas said in a Monday news conference.
When all four of them got off six stops later at the MacArthur Station, where the sisters planned to transfer, Cowell is accused of very rapidly launching an attack on Nia and her 26-year-old sister Lahtifa Wilson. Still on the platform, he stabbed both several times with a knife, including in the neck, Rojas said.
In my close to 30 years of police experience, it was one of the most vicious attacks that Ive seen, the chief said Monday.
Nias sister Nishiya came to her aid immediately, applying pressure to her neck wound, but the 18-year-old died at the scene. Lahtifa was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was in stable condition on Monday.
There was no form of dispute leading up to the incident, according to Rojas, who called it an unprovoked, unwarranted, vicious attack.
https://ktla.com/2018/07/23/police-seek-man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-18-year-old-woman-wounding-her-sister-at-oakland-bart-station/
In other news:
The Alt-Right Proto-nazzie, "Proud Boys" are expected to nuisance The Bay Area this week... Co-inky-dink, maybe?
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Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 23/07/18 (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Jul 2018
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,661 posts)1. It's a miracle I tell ya!! Not!!
Misterfer
(20 posts)2. He was arrested the next day
He had discarded the knife after fleeing the scene.
He was arrested the next day, at a train station, after being recognized by a person at the station. The person called the police and he was taken into custody.
The article doesnt say if he was armed at the time.
He was a violent felon out on parole.
Lucky Luciano
(11,483 posts)3. The murder is incredibly appalling. Totally unprovoked!
Im sick of these people infesting our country.