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– A California parolee accused of stabbing two sisters – one of them fatally – on Sunday on A Bay Area Rapid Transit platform in Oakland has a long list of criminal charges in its past, as well as a history of mental illness, according to reports.

John Lee Cowell, 27, was arrested Wednesday for murder with a deadly weapon in the murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed while she and her sister were descending from a train BART at McArthur Station. Nia Wilson's sister, Lahtifa Wilson, 26, was seriously injured in the attack.

A third sister was not injured, said Monday the BART police chief, Carlos Rojas, at a press conference.

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Cowell, who was released from prison 75 days before stabbing, is also charged with attempted murder in Lahtifa Wilson's stabbing . The records of the Alameda County Jail show that Cowell is charged with the particular circumstances of the use of a deadly weapon and causing serious bodily injury.

Rojas on Monday called him stabbing one of the most vicious attacks he's seen in his nearly 30-year career.

"We are really asking for justice for Nia and Lahtifa," said Rojas. "It's a horrible and horrible incident that happened, and I think everyone is thinking about the family."

The Los Angeles Times reported that Rojas described the badault as a "prison-type attack". The back sisters stabbed Nia Wilson twice before doing the same to her sister, Rojas said.

"It's basically gone to the slap of the fingers, down the pin – as fast," Rojas told the Times.

Rojas said at Monday's press conference that Nia Wilson's sister had immediately put pressure on the teenager's injury. Two BART agents who were already at McArthur Station took first aid.

Nia Wilson died on the scene. Lahtifa Wilson has been hospitalized but has since been released, the sisters' father told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday.

Amsar El Muhammad was present at the Oakland courthouse, where the killer accused of his daughter was scheduled to appear Wednesday afternoon. The distressed father said that he wanted justice for his two daughters, especially Nia Wilson.

"My daughter was everything to me," Muhammad told the Chronicle. "She was so beautiful, so inspired. (She) had dreams

" I'm supposed to plan her graduation, not her funeral. "

Ansar Muhammad, father of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed in a Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, talks with reporters outside of a courtroom before the indictment of suspect John Lee Cowell on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Oakland, in California: Her older sister, Lehtifa Wilson, was also stabbed, but she survived (AP Photo / Lorin Eleni Gill)

AP photo / Lorin Eleni Gill

Alicia Grayson, mother of Nia Wilson, 18 -year-olds who were fatally stabbed at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, talk with tears to reporters outside of a hearing room before the indictment of suspect John Lee Cowell on Wednesday, July 25 2018, in Oakland, Calif. Wilson's older sister, Lehtifa Wilson, equaled was stabbed but survived (AP Photo / Ben Margot)

AP Photo / Ben Margot

BART spokesperson Alicia Trost showed Nia and Lahtifa Wilson aboard the train at Concord. Between Concord and MacArthur Station, the sisters had no contact with their attacker, whom the BART authorities later identified as Cowell.

As the women moved to disembark and change trains, the suspect pbaded them, cutting Nia Wilson's throat and stabbing her sister. The entire attack was filmed, Rojas said Monday.

Station parking cameras also captured images of the suspect losing his jacket and trousers while he changed clothes.

"In my opinion, it's a guilty conscience of an individual who knows that the police respond and that he has done something really bad," Rojas told reporters.

The chief stated that the alleged weapon of the murder had been recovered from a construction site adjacent to the crime scene.

The camera images taken during the attack and sequels proved to be essential in identifying Cowell as a suspect in the case. The suspect also left "valuable evidence" at the scene of the crime, the authorities said.

Investigators were able to link this evidence to a quote that Cowell received for failing to pay for his ticket four days before the murder, BART officials said. The camera of the body of an agent captured images of Cowell, which were sent to law enforcement agencies in the area while the search for the suspect was continuing.

Left, a video camera of the body of a Bay Area transit agent who arrested John Lee Cowell, photographed for avoiding a ticket a few days before Cowell, 27, was charged with Having stabbed Nia Wilson, 18 years old. platform in Oakland, California. Right, Cowell's surveillance camera on the platform on July 22, 2018, the day Wilson was killed and his older sister injured (Bay Area Rapid Transit)

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A BART rider drove agents Monday to Cowell, who was arrested without incident aboard a train bound for Antioch at the Pleasant Hill station, authorities said.

There has been speculation that the crime could be racially motivated, since Cowell is white and Wilson's sisters were black. Investigators said they had found no evidence of racial motivation, but Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf, acknowledged the context of the crime Monday, saying the crime against young black women "causes deep pain and palpable fear".

"I recognize that Sunday's tragic events came as a result of news that white supremacists were trying to bademble in a downtown bar tonight," Schaaf said in a statement. "I appreciate the commitment of these institutions to ban such activity in their businesses and then I decided to hold a" Pro Oakland Movement "event tonight to support organizations that fight bigotry. and discrimination on behalf of our community and our values. Oakland has no room for hatred or white supremacy. "

The Times reported that Cowell was released on parole in May after a two-year prison term for second-degree theft.The Chronicle reported that during this robbery, which occurred at a Lucky grocery store in El Cerrito, Cowell threatened a security officer with a fake rifle and a cutter.When he was arrested, he was held on a BART platform in El Cerrito.

The Criminal History of Cowell Goes Back to 2009, when he was 18 years old, the same age as Nia Wilson.At that time, he was charged with criminal badault for beating a man and beating the girl in front of their man. ABC7 reported that the conviction of aggression had resulted in a period of probation.

Four years later, he was convicted of having beaten someone at Walnut. Two years later, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for being under the influence of e methamphetamine, found the Chronicle.

Cowell was found homeless, but his alleged crimes continued with most minor offenses. An aunt applied for a restraining order against him in Contra Costa County in 2015, saying that he was threatening her while she was under the influence of drugs.

In 2016, she was a receptionist from Richmond Kaiser Hospital who requested a restraining order. She told the court that Cowell, with whom she was familiar at the time, repeatedly threatened her life.

The theft at the Lucky store arrived a month later, reports the Chronicle.

A video image of KGO-TV shows Lahtifa Wilson, 26, the injured sister of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed in the neck on July 22, 2018 on a Bay Area Rapid Transit platform. Oakland, California. Lahtifa Wilson, who was also stabbed, said he had never noticed the criminal who, according to authorities, was attacking the sisters at random. (KGO-TV via AP)

KGO-TV via AP

at KRON4 in San Francisco that he suffered from mental illness for most of his life. They said that he was in and out of the prison and did not receive proper treatment.

When he was released in May, he was coming to a state mental hospital, according to the release.

"When he was released from the Atascadero Psychiatric Center in the Atascadero State Prison on May 8, there was no room for him, most of psychiatric institutions being closed, "said Cowell's family. "Knowing that he was diagnosed bipolar and schizophrenic, the system failed in this case."

The family acknowledged the injunctions that family members obtained for their own protection, saying that Cowell was living on the street without proper treatment.

"This is by no means an excuse for this senseless and vicious attack," the statement said. "We want to let the Wilson family know that our hearts are coming to them and that we are crying for your family." This horrific tragedy should never have happened. "

Shane Glick, the man beaten by Cowell In front of his daughter in 2009, told the Chronicle that he was facing Cowell and a group of other young men on the burglary of his home when they started beating him. When Glick's daughter, who was on the phone with the police, went out, Cowell punched her.

Glick, now 55, says he believes that Cowell deserves the ultimate punishment for Nia Wilson's death.

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