Someone snitched for a change.
Via KTVU:
BART officials said police have arrested the suspect in the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old woman Sunday night at BART’s MacArthur station in Oakland.
As of 6:45 p.m. today John Lee Cowell, 27, had been arrested by BART police who were led to Cowell through an anonymous tip from a BART rider. Cowell was arrested without any trouble on an Antioch-bound train at the Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre station.
At a Monday evening news conference BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said Cowell was held at BART’s police station and was due to be questioned by the Alameda County district attorney before being booked into jail.
Rojas described the stabbings of the sisters as a “prison-style attack.” When asked how the suspect got back on BART, Rojas said public transportation is “very porous” and that Cower had evaded fare as recently as last week.
The godfather of the woman who was fatally stabbed called today for the community to remain calm in the wake of the deadly crime.
Daryle Allums of the group “Stop Killing Our Kids,” the godfather of Nia Wilson, said, “We need the community, especially the African American community, to stand down right now.”
Allums said, “We’re asking the community to respect the family and don’t put any blood on our hands.”