For 18 months, former Bay area transit officer Johannes Mehserle maintained a public silence about what led him to shoot unarmed Oscar Grant as he lay face down on an Oakland train platform. More answers may come on Friday when Mehserle resumes testifying at his murder trial in a Los Angeles courtroom
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Defendant testifies in Calif. train shooting trial
A former Bay Area transit officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man told jurors Thursday during his murder trial that training he received didn’t emphasize the possibility of mistaking his stun gun with his handgun. But that’s what his lawyer claims happened on an Oakland train platform on New Year’s Day 2009 when Johannes Mehserle pulled out his .40-caliber handgun and shot Oscar Grant, 22. Mehserle’s surprise testimony in the 10-day trial is the first time he has spoken publicly about shooting Grant as he lay face down on the train platform at the Fruitvale station.
Prosecution rests in Calif. train station shooting
Supporters hold posters of Oscar Grant during a protest in Los Angeles on Monday, June 14, 2010. Grant, was shot and killed in 2009 in Oakland, Calif
Train Hit By Tree Back Up And Running
The train was headed to downtown Sacramento from Meadowview when it made an unscheduled stop. The tree fell onto the train at 7th Street and N Street around 2:00 p.m.
BART investigating how woman was trapped by train
BART police are trying to determine how a woman became trapped under a train late Saturday at the transit system’s Rockridge Station in Oakland.
Sex offender arrested in light rail stalking case
Manuel Ayala. Sacramento police have arrested a man on suspicion of stalking a woman on light rail to her apartment
Mother’s Day offers opportunities to make her smile
Sunday is Mother’s Day.
Sacramento officials seek new bid process for part of railyard project
City officials will ask the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday to reject bids for a major downtown railyard track-moving project – and start over with a revamped bid process immediately. City officials had hoped to start work this month moving the passenger and freight rail lines a few hundred feet north in the railyard to make room for an expansion of the train depot, and for a possible sports and entertainment facility as well as other development
Sacto 9-1-1: Sacramento sheriff says light-rail shooting victim arrested in phone theft
Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies said that a man shot at a light rail station on Tuesday has been arrested for having a cell phone stolen from another rider earlier in the day. Christian Cornelius, 18, suffered a gunshot wound to his leg about 9:30 a.m.
Sacto 9-1-1: Teen hit by light rail train in Folsom
Police say that a teen talking on his cell phone while walking on the tracks was hit by a light rail train in Folsom this morning. The 18-year-old was walking toward Folsom just west of the Folsom Boulevard outlet mall about 10 a.m. when he was hit by a Sacramento-bound the light rail train
