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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The DC metro is horrible right now. Dirty, dangerous, and broken down.
Close to 50% of the riders jump the stiles and the station managers turn their heads. There is trash everywhere, including on the trains. Packs of teens terrorize upstanding citizens for even looking at them. It’s sad.
Must not have read those signs about no weapons permitted.
isn’t that what china jo said to do....shoot in the leg?
Citizens disarmed the perp.
LE just batted cleanup.
Potomac Ave. is a crappy neighborhood. Anything can happen there.
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