SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – The Lake Merritt BART station has reopened and the man who allegedly shot another man aboard a train on Friday afternoon remains at large.
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The man who was shot sustained life-threatening injuries, according to police, but authorities said he was in stable condition at a nearby hospital as of Friday afternoon.
BART police said in a press conference that a man shot another man aboard a San Francisco-bound train leaving Fruitvale Station at around 1:30 p.m. The shooter used a handgun, according to police, before jumping off of the train ahead of its departure from the station.
Ed Alvarez, the transit agency's chief of police, told reporters that people then started calling 911. Officers found the injured man as the train pulled into the Lake Merritt station, which BART then closed for about 45 minutes.
"At this point, based on the video that we have received at this time, we're pretty confident that this was not a random attack," Alvarez said, adding that police are hopeful that looking through the station and the train's security footage will confirm it was "a targeted attack."
Transit officials reopened the Lake Merritt station just before 2:30 p.m., about 45 minutes after they said the station was closed due to police activity. The Berryessa Line continued to experience "major delays" in all directions because of the shooting, according to the agency.
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