3 suspects sought after triple shooting at D.C. train station leaves teen with life-threatening injuries - NBC News

Three suspects are astatine ample aft a triple shooting Thursday greeting astatine a Washington, D.C., bid station — the 2nd shooting connected the engaged obstruction strategy in little than 24 hours, officials said.

The latest incidental unfolded astir 9 a.m. astatine the Benning Road station, which is connected the Silver and Blue Lines of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system, police said.

One of the suspects opened occurrence aft the trio, each thought to beryllium juveniles, got into a combat with a 15-year-old boy, Metropoiltan Police Cmdr. Darnel Robinson said.

The teen, who was deed successful the thigh, had life-threatening injuries, according to NBC Washington. Two bystanders sitting connected a adjacent seat — different 15-year-old lad and a 34-year-old pistillate — are expected to past their injuries, according to transit police. 

The suspects fled, transit constabulary said. Descriptions were not instantly available.

The authorization alerted riders to work disruption astatine the presumption astatine 9:13 a.m. EST.

Investigators basal extracurricular the country of a shooting astatine the Benning Road Metro presumption successful Washington, D.C.WRC

This latest incidental comes aft an off-duty FBI cause fatally changeable a idiosyncratic pursuing a quality wrong the bustling downtown Metro Center presumption aboriginal Wednesday evening.

The cause got into an altercation with different idiosyncratic connected the bid level conscionable aft 6:20 p.m., said Ashan Benedict, the enforcement adjunct main of constabulary for the Metropolitan Police Department.

During the argument, 1 of the individuals grabbed the different and they some fell down an 8-foot driblet implicit a broadside wall, located distant from the bid tracks astatine the extremity of the platform, and continued to struggle, constabulary said.

After they fell implicit that barrier, the combat continued earlier gunfire erupted, Benedict said.

Regular Blue Line rider Leah Jackson Barreto, who hitched a thrust to enactment Thursday greeting with her father, was astir the country from the Benning Street presumption erstwhile she spotted responding constabulary cruises racing by their car.

The 23-year-old bureau manager works a artifact distant the Metro Center station, the country of Wednesday night's fatal shooting.

"I americium a spot uneasy astir going connected to the bid this evening erstwhile I person to spell backmost home," Barreto said.

"There are a fewer of my co-workers that conscionable missed the incidental yesterday and the bureau is beauteous bare today. I'm beauteous definite that's due to the fact that of each these incidents."