A judge on Tuesday again delayed the arraignment of a man charged with murder for allegedly fatally shoving a woman into an oncoming BART train in San Francisco last week, as a mental health team evaluates the defendant in a medical facility.
Prosecutors said they charged Trevor Belmont, 49, also known as Hoak Taing, for the July 1 killing. They accuse the defendant of fatally shoving 74-year-old Corazon Dandan into the path of a Millbrae-bound train at the Powell Street BART station. Dandan died at a hospital, according to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.Belmont was taken into custody at the station, according to police.
'My heart is with the victim.'Tran, a 77-year-old retired ESL teacher, is a board member of Stop Crime SF, an advocacy group that monitors court proceedings among other anti-crime activism. She carries business cards with the phone number of the police tip line in English and Chinese.She said she has tried since the 1980s to bring awareness to the linguistic and cultural reasons why senior Asian-American Pacific Islanders can be especially vulnerable to crime.
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