Around 7 p.m. Friday evening, BART trains were stopped for about 10 to 15 minutes while San Francisco Police and BART PD officers responded to reports that a male suspect fled the scene of a stabbing at a Chinese restaurant and tried to escape into the 16th Street BART Station.

A witness who was stepping onto an Oakland bound train at the time told SFist Friday evening that four or five BART police officers ran passed her chasing the male suspect, who was holding a handkerchief to his face and challenging the cops to come after him. She goes on:

They told him to show his hands. I didn't see what the guy did but there was suddenly tons of yelling and they all drew their guns on him. I jumped into the train and climbed under a seat with the other train riders. There was one shot fired and then more yelling. I stayed under my seat for about a minute and then saw a huge crowd of people gathering to take photos. I peeked out to see at that point and the guy was on the ground sitting up handcuffed. They were cutting his clothes up/off. He had blood on his face. I think there was pepper spray because a cop was holding his own face. The guy was escorted out. He was walking.

According to a BART police spokesman speaking to SFist, SFPD officers responding to reports of a stabbing near 16th and Mission Streets pursued the suspect into the station and alerted their counterparts in BART police. BART PD officers found the suspect and tried to subdue him with pepper spray. When that didn't work, an officer hit the suspect with a less-than-lethal bean bag round. He was taken into custody by SFPD with only a minimal 15-minute disruption to BART service.

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