{"id":508686,"date":"2026-10-26T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:54:09","slug":"muni-attacker-flees-after-stabbing-bus-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508686\/","title":{"rendered":"Muni attacker flees after stabbing bus passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">A person who was stabbed early Monday on a Muni bus in the Western Addition was in serious condition at a hospital as police searched for a suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Officers were called at about 1:13 a.m. to Laguna and McAllister streets for a report of a stabbing, according to the San Francisco Police Department. Officers found a wounded bus passenger and gave aid until medics arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The suspect had fled the Muni 5 bus before the officers arrived. Police searched the area but did not find the attacker, the SFPD said. No description of the suspect was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The San Francisco Fire Department said it responded with a private ambulance crew that took the unidentified victim to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, arriving at 1:26 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The victim was stabbed in the head and chest, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.com\/-P4rGbi_PHRnKULRx-E7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">post on the Citizen app (opens in new tab)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cWe\u2019re grateful that the victim\u2019s injuries are reported to be non-life-threatening and wish them a full recovery,\u201d the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">On Sept. 23, a passenger on the 14 Mission bus was <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/10\/19\/muni-14-mission-stabbing-victim-bobby-meza-interview\/\" data-post-id=\"b50c25ea-6978-4436-8dbb-63c828decda0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slashed in the throat<\/a>, allegedly by another passenger who had been menacing two women on the bus. Police <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/09\/28\/muni-throat-slashing-victim-protected-women-harasser-attack-da\/\" data-post-id=\"2db772d4-d515-4f6a-92b9-fcec0d16849c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested the suspect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The SFMTA said police-investigated aggravated assaults on Muni fell from 1,089 in 2019 to 307 through July 2026, a drop of almost 72%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Anyone with information is asked to call police at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411, beginning the message with \u201cSFPD.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person who was stabbed early Monday on a Muni bus in the Western Addition was in serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[723,37854,3768,101,103,102,104,106,105,5449,3796,32451],"class_list":["post-508686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-crime","tag-crisis-in-streets","tag-muni","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfmta","tag-stabbings","tag-western-addition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508686","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=508686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}