Victim identified in deadly stabbing aboard Metro Transit bus
(KSTP/file)
The man who was fatally stabbed aboard a Metro Transit bus Sunday morning in the Uptown area of Minneapolis has been identified.
Police say the victim — 53-year-old Robert Leon Commodore of Minneapolis — and another man on a bus got into an argument, and the other passenger stabbed Commodore in the neck before running away from the scene around 2 a.m. near Lagoon and Emerson avenues.
Commodore was pronounced dead at the scene.
No arrests have been made.
Police say the stabbing was the city’s 27th homicide of the year.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers of Minnesota at 800-222-8477 or submit an anonymous tip online.