Police identify man fatally shot by FBI agent at Metro Center - The Washington Post

Police said successful a connection Thursday that Bullock besides went implicit the railing, and some men landed astir 8 feet beneath the Red Line bid platform, distant from the tracks. Police said astatine that constituent the cause fired his gun, striking Bullock.

Police besides said successful the connection that they recovered a firearm connected Bullock aft helium had been shot. Authorities did not accidental whether Bullock displayed the weapon oregon if the cause knew the antheral was armed. Police person not described a circumstantial menace the cause faced. They besides person not said what prompted the altercation.

Authorities person not identified the cause but person described him arsenic a elder subordinate of the FBI. He was injured successful the fall, constabulary said, and was treated astatine a infirmary for injuries not believed to beryllium life-threatening.

Efforts to scope Bullock’s relatives were not instantly successful.

The shooting astatine Metro Center and different shooting Thursday greeting astatine the Benning Road Metro presumption successful Northeast Washington person brought caller attraction to unit connected the transit system. In the latest incident, constabulary said 2 teens and an big were changeable during an altercation. One of the teens, a 15-year-old who constabulary said they judge was the shooter’s intended target, was critically injured. A 34-year-old pistillate and different 15-year-old antheral were struck by stray bullets and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, constabulary said. The fishy remains astatine large, authorities said.

Metro General Manager Randy Clarke has said transit constabulary person beefed up patrols astatine stations this autumn successful effect to unit occurring connected trains, stations oregon buses.

In some cases, commuters reported panic with radical rushing retired of the stations and distant from the gunfire. At Metro Center, 1 idiosyncratic posted connected Twitter: “Was adjacent capable to spot the flash from the past 2 shots. Never moved truthful accelerated successful my life.”

People connected the Metro Center level — headed successful the absorption of Glenmont — said they ran oregon hid down escalators, and it appeared a bid sped done the presumption to get passengers to safety.

Megan Gamble was connected a Red Line bid erstwhile it pulled into Metro Center to the dependable of gunshots. She posted connected Twitter that “everyone connected the bid deed the ground,” adding, “the bid didn’t stop, went connected through.”

Angelic Young, 46, of Silver Spring, Md., was lasting connected the level arsenic the bid whooshed by. She said successful a connection to The Post that she joined others taking screen down escalators, which besides were packed with people. She said she “stayed determination for cover” until she heard an announcement to exit the station.

Clarke praised the relation of a Metro bid that appeared to person sped done Metro Center without stopping arsenic gunfire erupted.

“Really grateful for the speedy absorption & thoughtful attraction by our obstruction relation contiguous whose effect during tonight’s constabulary progressive shooting astatine @wmata Metro Center kept customers from imaginable danger,” Clarke tweeted.

Wednesday’s shooting came days aft an FBI cause was acquitted of attempted second-degree execution successful the shooting of a antheral aboard a moving Metro bid successful December 2020.

Authorities said the cause was approached by a antheral who was panhandling and got into a verbal altercation with him. The cause said helium fired his weapon to support himself aft the antheral made threats and appeared to instrumentality an assertive posture.

A authoritative said the cause had “no concern firing a gun.”

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.