Oscar Grant subway shooting story on film

“Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler, left, and actor Michael B. Jordan, right, at the BART Fruitvale station in Oakland hours before attending the film’s premiere on June 20, 2013. Scenes of “Fruitvale Station” were shot in the same location where Oscar Grant was shot by a BART police officer in 2009. Four years later, Coogler has made a film about the case.  (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

“Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler, left, and actor Michael B. Jordan look at a mural of Oscar Grant near the BART Fruitvale station in Oakland.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

A pink, clay-like substance fills a hole in the tile floor on the platform of the BART Fruitvale station in Oakland where Oscar Grant was shot to death by a BART officer. Actor Michael B. Jordan believed it was a bullet hole left by ammunition that traveled through Grant’s body and into the ground.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Nigel Bryson, 23, who had been riding the train with Oscar Grant the night he was killed in 2009, wears a large pendant painted with Grant’s face on it to the Oakland premiere of “Fruitvale Station” at the Grand Lake Theatre on June 20, 2013.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

The marquee of the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland announces the premiere of “Fruitvale Station” on June 20, 2013.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Wanda Johnson, mother of shooting victim Oscar Grant, talks to the media before attending the Oakland premiere of “Fruitvale Station.”  (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Wanda Johnson, left, mother of Oscar Grant, and actress Octavia Spencer, at “Fruitvale Station” premiere. Spencer plays the role of Wanda Johnson in the film.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Malia Nguon takes a photo of a memorial to Oscar Grant at the Grand Lake Theatre on the night of the “Fruitvale Station” premiere.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

The cast walks the red carpet at the screening of “Fruitvale Station” at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 17, 2013.  (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Wanda Johnson, left, mother of shooting victim Oscar Grant, and daughter Trinice Smith at the “Fruitvale Station” screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Posing for photographers are actors Ahna O’Reilly, left, Kevin Durand, director Ryan Coogler, actors Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer and producer Forest Whitaker at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival screening of “Fruitvale Station” on June 17, 2013.   (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)