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One dead, three injured in DC Metro shooting
The Hill ^ | 02-01-2023 | JULIA MUELLER

Posted on 02/01/2023 11:32:23 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A Metro employee was killed on the platform at the Potomac Avenue station in Washington, D.C., as he tried to stop a shooter who opened fire on commuters, injuring three others on Wednesday morning.

A man brandishing a weapon on a Metro bus followed one individual off the vehicle at 14th Street and Potomac Avenue in Southeast D.C. and shot at them, striking their legs, police said at a press conference, in the first of what authorities are calling a “series of individual events.”

The shooter then traveled down a station escalator toward the underground rail platform and got into a separate altercation with an individual attempting to purchase a train ticket, and again shoots the individual in the leg.

The shooter continued further into the station and engaged with a woman on the platform and “attempts to either rob her, confront her, or get in some kind of altercation with her,” explained Metropolitan Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; dc; injured; metro; shooting
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This is not possible with the strict gun laws in DC... (S)
1 posted on 02/01/2023 11:32:23 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Must be an out-of-towner


2 posted on 02/01/2023 11:33:37 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“A series of individual events????”


3 posted on 02/01/2023 11:35:18 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I met Carlton Sickles, father of the DC Metro. at the doctors’ office. A colleague told him that I rode the Metro to work every day. He asked me if I liked the Metro (which I did) and he handed me his 38 year service pin. Nice man.


4 posted on 02/01/2023 11:40:35 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly, carry tweezers.)
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To: PGR88

So the shooter used a semi-automatic firearm then?


5 posted on 02/01/2023 11:40:38 AM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t they warn that Heller would cause a blood-bath?


6 posted on 02/01/2023 11:41:30 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

that gun just walked in and fired all by itself they should be banned!


7 posted on 02/01/2023 11:43:27 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If only there was some sort of small, portable tool that a person could carry on his person that could address this sort of threat.


8 posted on 02/01/2023 11:46:55 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No guns allowed in DC - must be fake news.


9 posted on 02/01/2023 11:49:11 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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‘in the first of what authorities are calling a “series of individual events.”’

Yeah, when those “events” are shootings, we call that a “mass shooting”.


10 posted on 02/01/2023 11:54:35 AM PST by Boogieman
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11 posted on 02/01/2023 11:55:37 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

he didn’t mean no harm, just shot them in the leg...


12 posted on 02/01/2023 12:04:22 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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All those strict gun laws that keep law abiding folks from having them, let thugs have them to kill others.


13 posted on 02/01/2023 12:31:31 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Jesus Christ is THE Way, THE Truth & THE Life. He and He alone IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN!! No other)
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It’s disturbing to this bureaucrat that citizens had to intervene?

What kind of statement is that?

Citizens are invariably the first line.

I say if more regular people stood up and fought back, this kind of garbage would happen much less. And finish faster (witness the yellow people who stopped mass murder recently; don’t think they’ve been indioctrinated fully with the Snivel and Hide method).


14 posted on 02/01/2023 12:35:05 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DM)
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John Reese unavailable for comment.

/Character name from Person Of Interest who shot bad guys in the knees instead of killing them.


15 posted on 02/01/2023 12:43:10 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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DC metro hasn’t changed in 40 years...
Riding a bus or subway is akin to being in a zoo cage...


16 posted on 02/01/2023 12:43:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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DC bans firearms on the Metro...just like shitcago. I guess this guy didn’t get the email.


17 posted on 02/01/2023 12:48:57 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: sodpoodle

Take the pen!


18 posted on 02/01/2023 1:29:42 PM PST by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m applying the “Ann Coulter Rule” to this one.


19 posted on 02/01/2023 1:38:27 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How to say a black person perpetrated a mass shooting in a gun free zone without saying a black person perpetrated a mass shooting in a gun free zone.


20 posted on 02/01/2023 1:57:02 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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