As BART contends with Muni for the esteemed designation as the most deranged transportation system in the Bay, the revolving 16th and Mission crime scene once again played host to stabbing and showdown with police.  On Friday evening, a male suspect involved in a stabbing at a local Chinese restaurant attempted to make his escape at the BART station, only to be chased by BART police.

According to an eyewitness who relayed the tale to SFist:

They told him to show his hands. I didn't see what the guy did but there was suddenly tons of yelling and they all drew their guns on him. I jumped into the train and climbed under a seat with the other train riders. There was one shot fired and then more yelling. I stayed under my seat for about a minute and then saw a huge crowd of people gathering to take photos. I peeked out to see at that point and the guy was on the ground sitting up handcuffed. They were cutting his clothes up/off. He had blood on his face. I think there was pepper spray because a cop was holding his own face. The guy was escorted out. He was walking.

The whole scene was cleaned up within 10-15 minutes, at which point the eyewitness's train departed for the normalcy of Oakland.

[SFist | Photo by Burrito Justice]