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The Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department is currently investigating the motive behind an alleged stabbing of a woman Wednesday morning at the Dublin/Pleasanton station, transit police said.
BART Communications Officer Chris Filippi told the Weekly that the woman suffered a non-life-threatening injury following the incident that took place on board the train. He said the police department received the initial call about the incident at around 7:18 a.m. Wednesday.
“The adult male suspect was arrested by BART PD outside the station,” Filippi said. “Motive is under investigation.”
Kendyl Clausen, who was visiting her parents in Pleasanton, was at the BART station Wednesday morning as she headed to work in San Francisco. She said while she wasn’t a witness to the attack, she did see a bit of the aftermath as she first arrived at the scene.
“When I got to BART, there was somebody on a stretcher and a lot of police officers,” Clausen said.
She said she proceeded to the platform to wait for the train along with everyone else when the BART employees told the early commuters that service had to shut down because the station was now a crime scene.
Her morning trip was delayed over an hour because the incident itself put her original train out of service and because there was confusion as to whether or not any train was going to pick riders up at that last stop in Pleasanton, Clausen told the Weekly.
According to the BART Alert account on X (formerly known as Twitter), the transit authority stopped service from Dublin/Pleasanton and West Dublin/Pleasanton at around 7:50 a.m. due to police activity. Clausen said that same notice came up on one of the screens at the station but was not announced.
Wheels provided more frequent bus service during that time between both stations, according to BART.
Clausen said it wasn’t until she actually got on the first train heading out of the Tri-Valley around 8:30 a.m. that she heard the BART operator apologize over the speakers for the delay and say it was due to a stabbing.
A request to BART police about the specific details of the attack was unanswered as of Wednesday evening.
