Elderly woman who died after being pushed into BART train identified

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A homeless man is accused of pushing a 74-year-old woman into a Bay Area Rapid Transit train, resulting in her death, according to BART officials. The elderly woman was pushed into a Millbrae-bound train inside the Powell Street Station in San Francisco at 11:06 p.m. Monday, officials said.

The victim was identified as Corazon Dandan of San Mateo County, according to the SF Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The train was approaching the station when Dandan was pushed, hit her head on the train, and fell on the platform, transit officials said. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and later died.

BART Police Department officers reacted quickly and arrested a homeless man, 49-year-old Trevor Belmont, also known as Hoak Taing, on the platform immediately following the incident, BART PD said.

Belmont was booked into the San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of murder and inflicting injury on an elderly person, inmate records show. He is being held behind bars without bail.

BART police are still interviewing witnesses, reviewing the station’s surveillance cameras, and working to determine a motive. “We have thousands of surveillance cameras that we use for incidents like,” Police Chief Kevin Franklin said.

The killing marked the first homicide on the BART system in 2024.

In July of 2018, 18-year-old Nia Wilson was stabbed to death by a homeless man as she was stepping from a BART train onto an Oakland station platform. Wilson’s killer, 33-year-old John Lee Cowell, is serving a life sentence for murder.

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