A spate of violence on Los Angeles' Metro system has flared up with two stabbings on Monday night, one at a South LA Metro station and another aboard a Metro bus in Glendale. The first incident reportedly involved a woman in the Metro elevator near the intersection of South Vermont Avenue and the 105 Freeway who was viciously stabbed and taken to the hospital in stable condition, as reported by CBS News. Authorities say that the male assailant was last seen clad in all black, fleeing on a westbound train towards Hawthorne they have yet to make an arrest in this case.

The night of violence began around 7 p.m. when a teenage passenger was stabbed during an assault by three other teens on a Metro bus in Glendale after a dispute possibly over a backpack, before the bus driver could get police attention and the perpetrators, except for one individual who remains at large, were apprehended, according to FOX LA. This attack preceded the subway station incident by approximately two hours, stoking the fears of commuters already rattled by a series of violent events on the transit system stretching back to earlier this year.

Responding to these incidents, and an especially brutal past few months that included the killing of a woman in Studio City and the stabbing of a Metro bus driver in South Los Angeles, Metro drivers had staged a "sick out" in protest and the board has since moved to install protective barriers between drivers and passengers, as detailed by KTLA. Recent crimes on the Metro, which have instilled fear in passengers and staff alike, have also provoked one Metro board member to publicly admit that she would not ride the system alone.