In response to murder of Mirna Soza Arauz, 66, LA Metro board seeks new ways to harden its system against armed people.
Mirna Soza Arauz, 66, seen in a photo on the GoFundMe website, was heading home after boarding Metro B Line in North Hollywood early Monday, April 22, 2024, and was stabbed to death. A suspect identified as Elliott Tramel Nowden, 45, was arrested.
Soza Arauz was heading home after boarding the train in North Hollywood on April 22 when she was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack. She managed to get off the train at the Universal City Station on the 3900 block of Lankershim Boulevard where she was found mortally wounded on the platform.
However Metro staff said there was no way that the Metro security officers, or the various law enforcement agencies who are contracted to patrol Metro’s system, could have been aware of the ban on Nowden. As part of the motion, Krekorian asked that Metro be made aware of stay-away notices by coordinating with the district attorney, the county Probation Department and the courts.
The motion also included pursuing facial recognition technology that scans people on a train platform or bus depot before they board. “When it sees something in the shape of a knife or firearm, the video takes a picture and sends that feed to the command center with a location, so we can deploy police resources to the location,” Butts explained.
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