Dec 1, 2009 12:03 am US/Pacific
Muni Suspect Fits Profile Of Boy's Attacker
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / BCN) ―
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Police said that the suspect in Monday's attack bore similarities to the man, depicted in this sketch, who stabbed 11-year-old Hatim Mansori on Sept. 1st.
SFPD
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11-year-old Hatim Mansori was stabbed in the abdomen on a San Francisco Muni bus on Tuesday September 1st, 2009.
SFGate
A man who stabbed a woman on a San Francisco Municipal Railway train Monday morning resembles the suspect sought in the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy on a Muni bus in September, police said.
Monday's incident was reported at 10:40 a.m. on an outbound J-Church train.
Police spokesman Sgt. Wilfred Williams said a 24-year-old woman sitting near the back of the train was stabbed twice on the left side of her torso.
The woman, identified as Ty Brown, told police she was asleep before she was attacked. Brown recently moved to San Francisco from Portland, Oregon with her partner.
The train operator was alerted of the situation and the train stopped on Church Street near 18th Street. The woman was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and is being held overnight for observation.
The suspect was described as a 25- to 40-year-old black man, about 6 feet tall with a full beard and a "bad body odor." He was wearing a black sweatshirt, a black jacket over the sweatshirt, and a black do-rag on his head.
"There are similar characteristics" to the man who stabbed 11-year-old Hatim Mansori on a Muni bus heading through the Mission District on Sept. 1, Williams said.
Mansori was riding home alone in the back of a 49 Van Ness/Mission bus at 19th and Mission streets when he was stabbed and seriously wounded by a man police then described as a "scruffy-looking," possibly homeless black man with a bad body odor who was wearing a black sweatshirt.
Mansori later recovered from his wounds but the suspect was never found.
In both cases, the attacker said nothing to the victims before stabbing them, police said.
Williams said police will review the camera on the J-Church train to see if it captured today's attack.
He said the suspect was seated near the victim on the train, then got up and walked past her toward the front of the train before turning around and, without any words or interaction, stabbing her twice, Williams said.
The man stopped to pick up a pair of tennis shoes that had been dangling by the shoelaces around his neck and had fallen off, and then got off the train near Church and Market streets, according to Williams. He fled in an unknown direction.
Muni service on the J-Church line was disrupted for about two hours during the investigation, and bus shuttles were set up to carry riders along Church streets, spokesman Judson True said.
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