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San Francisco Commuters Too Focused on Cell Phones to Notice Gunman

By Dan Amira

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Prior to shooting and killing a random person on a Muni train on September 23, Nikhom Thephakaysone pulled out a gun “several times on the train, with surveillance video showing him pointing it across the aisle.” But nobody even noticed. That candy wasn’t going to crush itself, after all.

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