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Oct 20, 2008 12:32 am US/Pacific

Arrest Made In Deadly Hayward BART Shooting

HAYWARD (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― A 20-year-old man was arrested and jailed Sunday on suspicion of murder for the fatal shooting of a man outside of the downtown Hayward BART station last week.
 
BART Police Chief Gary Gee said Kentwan Hawkins of Hayward was being held without bail for the Oct. 13 killing of 18-year-old Joshua Ligons.

Police do not believe the shooting was a random act.

Gee said Hawkins shot Ligons, his intended target, and a 77-year-old Fremont man who was an innocent bystander.

Ligons was shot at the sidewalk entrance to the Hayward BART station around 12:40 p.m. and then collapsed with life-threatening wounds near a fare gate. He later died at a hospital; the bystander survived.

Police said Hawkins had a handgun when he was arrested Sunday morning at a Stockton residence.

He was being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and enhancements alleging that he personally used a firearm.

Hawkins was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at the Hayward Hall of Justice.

(© CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The Associated Press and Bay City News contributed to this report.)

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