As King County Metro and Sound Transit work to make public transit safer for riders while they expand their reaches, KIRO 7 is investigating physical assaults on board on both passengers and employees.
King County Metro has focused on improving safety since the murder of bus driver Shawn Yim in December and several shootings on buses, some of them deadly, in the past few years.
But Sound Transit, too, has seen recent homicides: a 26-year-old man was shot and killed aboard a light rail train in February of 2024 and a 37-year-old man fatally stabbed at light rail station just months later in May…