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Elderly 'Tita Cora' killed by SF homeless man

(UPDATE) SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man allegedly pushed a 74-year-old Filipino American woman into the path of an arriving San Francisco Bay Area commuter train, killing her, police said Tuesday.

Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, said in a statement that the woman hit her head on the train and fell onto the platform in downtown San Francisco. She died at a local hospital.