Woman dies after being pushed into a San Francisco commuter train; suspect arrested

A 74-year-old woman died in San Francisco this week after she was pushed into an oncoming Bay Area Rapid Transit train. The suspect, a transient, was arrested.

The victim’s family identified her as Corazon Dandan. At 11:06 p.m. Monday as a train was arriving, she was pushed into it. She hit her head, fell on the platform and died after being hospitalized, the BART Police Department said Tuesday.

Trevor Belmont, 49, a homeless man known as Hoak Taing, is accused of pushing Ms. Dandan.

Mr. Belmont was arrested by BART police shortly after the alleged attack. He has been charged with murder and inflicting injury on an elder likely to cause great bodily injury, per San Francisco Sheriff’s Office inmate records. The incident is the BART system’s first homicide of 2024, police said.

Ms. Dandan had taken the same route to work for 40 years, her family said.

“It’s just shocking,” her nephew Alvin Dandan told the San Francisco Chronicle.

The family had warned Ms. Dandan to stop commuting so late at night.

“We told her it's dangerous to [go to] BART stations. [The family] told her to stop doing the commute,” Mr. Dandan told San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX-TV.