A 20-year-old man is charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating a woman at random with a table leg on a St. Paul LRT platform during rush hour Tuesday — as several witnesses watched without intervening.
According to court documents filed in Ramsey County, the attack occurred at 5:45 p.m. on the METRO Green Line platform at Fairview and University avenues.
Officers arrived at the scene to find the 31-year-old victim "lying in a pool of blood, bleeding heavily from her head and face," the charges state, and "a large wooden table leg" was found nearby.
The suspect was soon found by officers a couple blocks west of the platform with "blood on both hands."
Court documents state surveillance footage showed the woman get off a bus and walk towards the platform. The suspect then jogge