The widow of a man shot in an unprovoked attack on a subway bus in Los Angeles is speaking out

The wife of a man who was tragically gunned down on a Metro bus in Commerce last week is speaking out and sharing her pain over what investigators are calling a random and gratuitous killing.

The fatal May 16 shooting occurred on a Metro bus at Slauson and Boxford avenues just before 5 p.m.

According to authorities, the suspect, 30-year-old Winston Apolinario Rivera, boarded the bus in the 6200 block of Slauson and sat behind his victim, 32-year-old Juan Luis Gomez-Ramirez.

“When the bus stopped, the defendant allegedly walked to the rear exit, stopped behind Gomez-Ramirez, pointed a gun at his head and fired, killing him instantly,” prosecutors with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

Sarahi Lopez, the victim’s widow, told KTLA’s Chris Wolfe that she still feels the urge to visit the crime scene, parts of which are still stained with blood from the senseless shooting.

“Every day that goes by, I feel more and more confused, like I don’t have any answers,” Lopez said in Spanish, as her lawyer Mario Acosta Jr. translated.

Lopez said she agonized over how the fatal incident occurred. Her husband and father of her one-year-old son was not the type to cause conflict with anyone.

The couple worked as special education teachers in Mexico and had arrived in Los Angeles for a vacation in February. Wanting to stay longer but needing money, her husband got a job packing clothes at a Commerce warehouse not far from where the shooting occurred.

Rivera was arrested in the 6100 block of Peachtree Street, where he was hiding under a train, officials said. The 30-year-old has since been charged by prosecutors with murder and the special allegation that he used a firearm in the commission of a crime.

“The murderer has to tell me why he did what he did,” Lopez said through her lawyer. “I want him punished for destroying our family.”

Gomez-Ramirez’s killing came just hours after board members of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority held a news conference to discuss their response to a series of high-profile violent incidents on and near buses and trains.

On May 13th alone, there were two separate stabbings on board the subway. In the weeks preceding these incidents, there was a stabbing on a train that killed a grandmother in Studio City and another stabbing in South Los Angeles that injured a bus driver and a passenger.

On May 5, a driver of a Dash bus operated by the city of LA was brutally attacked by a homeless woman in an attack that was captured on video.

In March, a homeless man armed with an airsoft gun hijacked a Metro bus and crashed it into the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Los Angeles.

The family’s lawyer is now helping Lopez with immigration issues so she can stay in the U.S. and attend the trial of her husband accused of murder. The widow is considering a lawsuit against Metro and possibly other companies.

In the meantime, a GoFundMe program has been organized to help her and her young son get through this horrific ordeal.