{"id":292133,"date":"2026-04-29T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:48:08","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-in-deadly-stabbing-on-metro-train-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292133\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder in deadly stabbing on Metro train \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 66-year-old homeless man pleaded not guilty today to charges that he fatally stabbed a 72-year-old man on a Metro train in downtown Long Beach <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/crime\/long-beach-police-arrest-suspect-in-deadly-stabbing-on-metro-train\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cary Odel Singletary, sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a bright yellow jail-issued shirt, responded with \u201cyes, sir\u201d and \u201cOK\u201d when addressing Judge Alfred Coletta on Wednesday inside Long Beach Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s charged with murdering 72-year-old James Plummer, of South Gate, during an altercation inside a Metro car. He\u2019s also facing a charge of assault with a deadly weapon \u2014 a knife.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he faces life in prison, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged attack at about 5 a.m. on April 1, according to authorities. A train operator called 911 for help after spotting Plummer lying on the Metro station platform on Pacific Avenue near Fifth Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/crime\/long-beach-police-arrest-suspect-in-deadly-stabbing-on-metro-train\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used security camera footage<\/a> from inside the car and outside nearby businesses to track down Singletary and arrest him the following day, about four blocks from where the stabbing occurred.<\/p>\n<p>When he was booked into jail at the Long Beach Police Department, Singletary listed a post office in Santa Ana as his home address, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still looking into what sparked the stabbing, but they do not believe Singletary and Plummer knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>When asked outside of the courtroom, a prosecutor declined to provide further details on what preceded the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant filed the same day as the stabbing reportedly reveals Singletary\u2019s movements in the minutes before the deadly altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that security camera footage and interviews with nearby businesses show that Singletary had left Long Beach Memorial Hospital shortly before getting on the train.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives filed the search warrant to get his name and other identifying information from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Singletary remains held on $1.03 million bail and is due back in court on June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old homeless man pleaded not guilty today to charges that he fatally stabbed a 72-year-old man on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-292133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}