From a Tommy's security job to a ride home on Metro, her last hours alive

[Zorro]

The train pulled into the North Hollywood station Monday at 4:45 a.m., and I boarded with a handful of other riders headed south.

This was the same line a security guard had taken on April 22 after getting off work at a Tommy’s burger joint.

It was the last trip of her life, before she became the victim of an unprovoked stabbing on this train.

Her slaying, so senseless, random and unsettling, wrecked her family and shook the city. I can’t explain exactly why I felt the need to retrace her steps. Maybe it was simply an attempt to know her a little better.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/column-from-a-tommys-security-job-to-a-ride-home-on-metro-her-last-hours-alive

[bahboo]

1. unbelievably sad story....

contributed to family's Go Fund Me.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. very sad

[IcyPeas]

2. "I'm afraid," L.A. ... Metro board member Kathryn Barger said.

"I’m afraid,” L.A. ... Metro board member Kathryn Barger said.

When a member of the Metro board won't even ride the Metro.

"I’m afraid,” L.A. County Supervisor and Metro board member Kathryn Barger said last week as Metro declared a safety emergency after Soza Arauz’s killing and called for stepping up security measures, including the use of facial recognition technology.

Link to tweet

[The Mouth]

3. Her killer had a criminal record

And Gasbag let him out, after a 2019 plea.

If you stab or shoot someone the *ONLY* punishments should be death or life in prison. First time, strikes or not.

People who use guns or knives on other people other than in self defense deserve Mr. Happy Needle or lifetime solitary on bread and water; no parole, never seeing another human.

Almost ever heinous crime in CA is committed by someone who should have been put away and never let out.