Just a day after police arrested a man in connection with stabbing a 54-year-old woman on a BART train, we're learning more about the suspect and his long criminal record that spans the Bay Area.

The family of the man who died trying to prevent a theft on BART says they don't understand why no one else on the train jumped to his aid, including BART police, before he was fatally stabbed.

Nia Wilson was standing on a Bay Area Rapid Transit station platform in Oakland, California, Sunday night when she was stabbed to death in an apparently unprovoked attack.

RELATED: This is the moment the BART stabbing suspect was arrested. John Cowell is accused of killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson and injuring her sister Letifah Wilson at MacArthur BART.

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman has been seriously injured following an "unprovoked" stabbing on an Antioch-bound BART train Saturday morning, police said. The 54-year-old woman was stabbed around 8:10 a ...

Despite Tuesday's stabbing, the latest numbers from BART police showed that through the end of August, overall crime was down 15% compared with the same period in 2023.

A man accused of stabbing a woman on board a BART train in San Francisco earlier this month is expected to be appear in court on multiple charges Tuesday, including attempted murder.

The suspect in a fatal stabbing during a fight on a BART train at the transit agency's South Hayward station Tuesday afternoon walked away from a San Leandro Hospital sometime prior to the crime ...

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- A man BART police hailed as a hero after he disarmed a stabbing suspect who attacked two people on a train at the Coliseum station in Oakland spoke exclusively to KPIX 5 Sunday ...

Just a day after police arrested a man in connection with stabbing a 54-year-old woman on a BART train, we're learning more about the suspect and his long criminal record that spans the Bay Area.