SAN FRANCISCO — A search was underway Wednesday for a gunman who shot two people, one fatally, on a packed Muni commuter train in San Francisco, police said.
The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. as the light-rail train was moving between stations, according to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Kathryn Winters.
She said the gunman and commuters aboard the train ran off as soon as it stopped and the doors opened at the station. The shooting happened ahead of this Sunday's Pride Parade in San Francisco and in the heart of the city's popular Castro District, which is expected to be filled with revelers celebrating LGBTQ pride this weekend. Winters said preliminary evidence showed that the shooting has no connection to this coming weekend's activities or directed at the city's LGBTQ community.
Winters said homicide detectives are securing surveillance video from the train and the Forest Hill and Castro stations in hopes there is footage of the shooting that can help them identify the assailant.
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