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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 10:56 PM Jan 2013

One dead, one injured in shooting at Bay Fair BART

Source: KGO-TV
Reposted in GD after LBN lock

One person is dead and another wounded after a shooting at the Bay Fair BART station in San Leandro Saturday afternoon.

Quick thinking by a local cab driver may have helped BART police quickly take a man into custody for the shootings. What we know now is a 40-year-old man is dead and a woman is hospitalized.

A man who did not want to be identified told ABC7 News he was standing nearby when gunshots rang out. He described the fear he felt when the shooting happened near him, "I tried to run myself. I thought somebody was mad and had a machine gun or something because I heard tak, tak, tak tak. I tried to run myself and hide because everybody was running."

... BART police say they have one man in custody. A nearby cab driver told us he followed three men after hearing the shots. He was suspicious because they were the only ones walking away from the scene while others ran away in panic. He also did not want to appear on camera.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8960439

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One dead, one injured in shooting at Bay Fair BART (Original Post) Newsjock Jan 2013 OP
Um, what's BART? nt Deep13 Jan 2013 #1
Train station. I think it stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit. California. nt Chorophyll Jan 2013 #2
Serves huge area in San Francisco/Oakland and points East. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #3
More responsible gun ownership. kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #4

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. Serves huge area in San Francisco/Oakland and points East.
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 11:21 PM
Jan 2013

Some is underground, some is land.
The area in question is next door to Oakland Airport across the Bay from San Franciso.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
4. More responsible gun ownership.
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 11:58 PM
Jan 2013

If only everyone else in the BART station had been armed with uzis and started firing randomly in a panic, no one would have been killed.

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