A man beat a woman repeatedly with a table leg in a random attack at a Green Line station in St. Paul, according to an attempted murder charge filed Thursday.

Officers responded to the Fairview and University avenues platform about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and found a 31-year-old woman lying in a pool of blood. She was bleeding heavily from her head and face, and her glasses lay broken nearby.

Police found a large wooden table leg on a nearby platform walkway.

Witnesses reported the assailant had walked west on University Avenue, and police found Jerrod Rentist Johnson nearby at Lynnhurst and Oakley avenues. Johnson, 20, of Minneapolis, matched the suspect’s description and had blood on both his hands, according to the criminal complaint.

“Attacks on our riders are absolutely unacceptable and

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