The search continued Thursday to find an armed man who on Wednesday shot two people, one deadly, on a crowded Muni commuter train in San Francisco, police said.
The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. as the light rail moved between stations, according to San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman Kathryn Winters.
Winters said police were initially called to the city’s Forest Hill Muni station to report a shooting, but the train had already been withdrawn. Officers arrived by train at the crowded Castro Street station, where they discovered the two victims, Winters said.
Police released a photo of a person of interest related to the shooting on Wednesday afternoon.
Winters said the gunman and passengers on the train fled as soon as he stopped and the doors opened at the station.
A gunman fatally shot and killed another man on a moving light train in San Francisco on June 22, 2022.
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Winters said one victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A second person was taken to Zuckerberg General Hospital in San Francisco and the Trauma Center with life-threatening injuries.
The shooting took place ahead of this Sunday’s Pride Parade in San Francisco and in the heart of the city’s popular Castro district, which is expected to be filled with partygoers celebrating LGBTQ pride this weekend. Winters said preliminary tests showed the shooting has nothing to do with activities this coming weekend or is aimed at the city’s LGBTQ community.
Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, June 22, 2022, police said.
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San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar told ABC’s KGO-TV station in San Francisco that police informed her that the shooting occurred during a confrontation the gunman had with the victim that he died.
“We know the shooting came after a heated verbal discussion,” Melgar said.
It was not immediately clear if the gunman and the dead victim knew each other. He said the second victim who was injured was an innocent bystander.
Winters said Wednesday that homicide detectives were securing a surveillance video of the train and Forest Hill and Castro stations in hopes that there would be footage of the shooting that could help them identify the assailant.
Police had posted a vague description of the assailant, saying he was a man in dark clothes and a hooded sweatshirt.
Melgar asked the passengers who were going on the train and witnessed the shooting to contact the police immediately.
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