A 20-year-old man is charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating a woman at random with a table leg on a St. Paul LRT platform during rush hour Tuesday — as several witnesses watched without intervening.

According to court documents filed in Ramsey County, the attack occurred at 5:45 p.m. on the METRO Green Line platform at Fairview and University avenues.

Officers arrived at the scene to find the 31-year-old victim "lying in a pool of blood, bleeding heavily from her head and face," the charges state, and "a large wooden table leg" was found nearby.

The suspect was soon found by officers a couple blocks west of the platform with "blood on both hands."

Court documents state surveillance footage showed the woman get off a bus and walk towards the platform. The suspect then jogge

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