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Transgender Woman, 24, Stabbed on Muni in San Francisco: Police

A man accused of stabbing a 24-year-old transgender woman after hurling slurs at her and her friend on a San Francisco Muni bus Saturday evening has been arrested.

The victim and her friend, both transgender, were sitting toward the back of a 49-Van Ness Muni bus they had boarded in the South of Market neighborhood and were heading north on Van Ness Avenue when the suspect approached them, police said.

"We were both on the bus together when a man across the way accused us both of defrauding him by pretending to be female," the victim's friend Rae Raucci wrote on Facebook after the attack.

The man began harassing her and the victim — whom Raucci identified as Samantha — and repeatedly used slurs against them, calling them derogatory names, Raucci said.

The pair got off the bus on Van Ness Avenue in the city's Civic Center neighborhood to get away from him, but the man followed, brandishing a knife, Raucci wrote.

He stabbed the victim twice in the upper chest, Raucci wrote. That stabbing took place at about 5:55 p.m. on Van Ness Avenue between Golden Gate Avenue and Turk Street, police said.

The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where Raucci said she received 10 stitches.

The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, was arrested at the scene, but police have not yet released his name.

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