Transient was once banned from L.A. Metro for violence. Now he's charged with killing woman on subway


by Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times— Calling the fatal stabbing of a woman riding a Metro train "truly a tragedy that should have never occurred," Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón on Wednesday announced a murder charge against a homeless man with a history of violence against passengers. Elliot Tramel Nowden was arrested Monday shortly after Mirna Soza, a 66-year-old security guard returning from her night shift, was found mortally wounded on the ground at the Universal Studios train platform. He has now been charged...

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Los Angeles Times—She was saving money to move back to Nicaragua. Then she was killed on an L.A. subway. Each night for Mirna Soza was a bit like the last. She worked every day for the last three years as a security guard at Original Tommy's hamburgers in North Hills, clocking in around 7 p.m. and working until 3 or 4 a.m. Then, usually, she would hang around the restaurant until the sun started to rise before taking public transit home, where she would sleep until she had to wake up and do it again. It was safer to ride when the sun came up, she thought. But sometimes she was too tired to wait and...