Police say multiple people stabbed on Amtrak train in Niles; 1 arrested

WSBT TVS 22 CBS ^ | 12/5/2014 | Jessica Schliska

[VanShuyten]

Police confirm to CBS News multiple people have been stabbed Friday evening on an Amtrak train in Niles. dispatchers say the call came in around 7:00 p.m. for reports of multiple people stabbed at the station near N 6th Street and Pokagon Street in Niles.

Police confirm to CBS News one person has been arrested. The conditions of those injured are unknown.

[VanDeKoik]

Racist cops at it again. This child was trying to swat a fly that was going to suck the blood out of those people.

[exnavy]

Southwest Michigan. About 20 minutes south of me.

[exnavy]

Actually Muskegon Heights has it beat.

[foreverfree]

Neither the Capitol Limited nor the Lake Shore Limited duck into Michigan. This was a Wolverine train out of Chicago to Detroit-Pontiac.

Per http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/breaking-police-respond-to-stabbing-at-amtrak-station-in-niles/30085188 the perp had a ticket from Chicago to Flint, so this train was the Blue Water (Chicago-Niles-East Landing-Flint-Port Huron), going no closer to Detroit than Flint.

Here's Amtrak's Michigan service...

http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/8/305/Michigan-Service-Schedule-102714.pdf

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[foreverfree]

Correction: East *Lansing*. I'm surprised its not called the Spartan (the three Wolverine round trips go through Ann Arbor)...

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[foreverfree]

Oops - just saw post #52 (thanks, fellow FReeper)

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[Publius]

It used to be the Chicago-Toronto train, but the customs delays at Sarnia-Port Huron were so bad that the train was truncated permanently at Port Huron.

[SteveAustin]

Have we heard anything more about this perpetrator and his motives?

Seems odd to have a guy just start stabbing people on the train at a train stop.

Obviously everyone on Freep understands what likely happened. I’d just like to see some media reporting on it.

[VanShuyten]

Family blames PTS Syndrome. No details yet