A Los Angeles man who almost died in a violent attack on an LA Metro train urged elected officials to increase public safety and law enforcement presence across the transit system.
72-year-old Stan Slokosky said he was assaulted on a Metro train two years ago after attending a church concert in Pasadena.
“A woman behind me sat down and said, ‘You’re blocking my view.’ And I just ignored her,” recalled Slokosky, adding the confrontation with the random passenger escalated to unimaginable violence.
“She had a canister of what the detectives told me was gasoline, and she sprayed it on me.She had a lighter and set me on fire,” he described.
Slokosky said he spent seven weeks in the hospital and three months in a nursing home after suffering burns on his face and upper body along with second-degree burns on his arms.
“I didn’t realize how badly I was burned …