SF News Dear BART, If You Want More Riders on Nights and Weekends, Stop Being Filthy, Slow, and Scary BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF News [Update] Accused BART Station Murderer John Lee Cowell Says Wilson Sisters Were Aliens 29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
SF News Nia Wilson Murder Trial Begins With Gruesome Surveillance Video, Outburst From Accused Killer The murder trial of 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, the mentally unstable transient man accused of killing an 18-year-old woman in an Oakland BART station two years ago, got off to an inauspicious start Wednesday morning.
SF News Of All SF BART Stations, You're Most Likely To Have Your Phone Stolen at Balboa Park Get off your phones! Cellphone and laptop thefts in the BART system were up 32 percent in 2019 over the previous year, and in San Francisco the stations where the most thefts occurred were Balboa Park and 24th Street/Mission.
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Attempted Murder In Attack on Homeless Woman at Richmond BART Station A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack on a homeless woman on the BART platform at Richmond Station.
SF News Suspect In 2018 BART Stabbing Is 'Malingering' About Mental Illness, Judge Says An Alameda County judge who is set to preside over the trial of a transient man suspected of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station last year is still unconvinced about the man's attorney's push to have his mental competence re-examined.
SF News Transient Man Accused In 2018 BART Stabbing Pleads Insanity In court on Friday, 29-year-old John Lee Cowell pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in July 2018.
SF News Nursing Student Tells Harrowing Hero Story Of Trying To Save BART Stabbing Victim A 22-year-old nursing student who uses a wheelchair and is legally deaf was a witness to the entire conflict on the BART train on Tuesday that ended with the stabbing death of Oliver T. Williams.
SF News BART Murder Victim Remembered By Family and Friends As Happy, Generous Soul The 49-year-old Oakland man who was fatally stabbed aboard a BART train on Tuesday is being remembered by his loved ones as a kind and helpful person who was always quick to defend others against bullies.
SF News Lengthy Exposé Shows How Crime on BART Has Gone Off the Rails NBC Bay Area reveals that BART is “one of the most dangerous transportation systems in the country,” and details which stations are the worst for violent crime.
SF News Suspect Arrested in West Oakland Following Box-Cutter Slashing On BART An apparently mentally disturbed suspect was arrested Friday afternoon after an incident in which a woman was stabbed or slashed with a box-cutter on board a BART train.
SF News Man Stabs Three On East Bay BART Platform, Evades Capture A man who stabbed three people on a BART platform this weekend remains at large Monday, just the latest in an ongoing series of attacks at the transit agency. According to ABC 7,
SF News BART Says Randomly Beaten Rider 'Out Of The Ordinary,' Apparently Forgetting Similar Attacks Last Month An unprovoked attack on a woman riding BART from city college drew a seemingly disingenuous response from the transit agency, with a spokesperson terming the random attack as "out of the ordinary" though
SF News Photos Released Of BART Note Passer/Attempted Mugger, Do You Recognize Her? The story of a bizarre attempted robbery on BART that some thought was too strange to be true...was actually true, it appears, after the transit agency released surveillance video of the woman
SF News Roughed-Up Riders Suing BART For Inadequate Security The $3 million civil suit against BART brought forward by the family brutalized in the infamous deplorable teen flash mob robbery has now morphed into a much larger class action suit with more
SF News BART Patrons Arrested In SF For Threats To Women, Attempted Hat Theft In a welcome change of pace to the many stories of unsolved BART crime, BART police say they made at least two arrests this weekend, both at stations in San Francisco. The first
SF News Party's Over For BART Gate-Hoppers As Police Crack Down On Fare Evasion If you’re in on the dirty little secret that many BART stations (like Embarcadero) have free-swinging gate exits that you can just walk right through, your swinger party may be over. ABC
SF News Man Threatens To Kill Everyone On BART Train, Is Allowed To Board By BART Cop A clearly unstable man who had already caught the attention of BART police early Friday morning at North Concord/Martinez BART Station was allowed by one BART officer to board a train full
SF News Video: Victim In Richmond BART Mob Attack Speaks Out 30-year-old Landon Sims has no idea why a gang of about a dozen teenagers randomly attacked him outside the Richmond BART station last week. Robbery was not the apparent motive because, as he
SF News Richmond Mayor Witnesses BART Attack, Calls Out Nearby Workers As 'Uninterested' Anxiety over BART crime, safety, and deplorable teens will surely be on the rise after yet another BART attack by a teen mob Thursday, this one at the Richmond station. The Chronicle reports
