Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Police Confirm Shooting Victim Was Fremont Resident Kenneth Seets

Family member says Seets was victim in Saturday afternoon's fatal shooting.

Updated Jan. 23: BART officials have confirmed that the man shot and killed at the Bayfair BART station in San Leandro on Saturday afternoon was 50-year-old Fremont resident Kenneth Lee Seets.

Family members posted on Patch Monday that Kenneth Lee Seets was shot along with a woman in the bus-loading zone of the BART station at about 12:20 p.m.

The second victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

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Police arrested one potential suspect in the shooting but said on Sunday that police were seeking three additional suspects. Police have not identified any of the suspects.

According to his Facebook page,  Kenneth Seets was from Georgia and worked as a delivery person for a Hayward plastics plant from 1993 to 1996. The page hadn't appeared to have been updated during the past two years.

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According to news reports, the man who was killed may have been hit by gunfire intended for someone else.

Commenters on Patch described Seets, 50, as "very loving," and the "last person one would think this could happen to."

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