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Related: About this forumMan fatally shot aboard Green Line train in DC
https://wtop.com/dc/2023/05/police-1-fatally-shot-inside-navy-yard-metro-station/
A man was fatally shot Sunday morning on the Washington Metros Green Line.
Police received a call around 11:45 a.m. regarding a shooting aboard a Green Line train. Arriving at D.C.s Navy Yard station, they discovered a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Despite efforts to save him, the man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police department.
Police are searching for a suspect described as a Black man, aged between 25 and 27, with a thin build. He was last seen dressed in black, with curly hair, and carrying a silver or gray gun.
D.C. police Assistant Chief Andre Wright stated that the suspect boarded the Green Line train at LEnfant Plaza and engaged in an altercation with the victim. The suspect shot the victim several times and then exited the train at the Waterfront station. The train continued to Navy Yard.
Wright characterized the incident as an isolated event.
A man was fatally shot Sunday morning on the Washington Metros Green Line.
Police received a call around 11:45 a.m. regarding a shooting aboard a Green Line train. Arriving at D.C.s Navy Yard station, they discovered a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Despite efforts to save him, the man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police department.
Police are searching for a suspect described as a Black man, aged between 25 and 27, with a thin build. He was last seen dressed in black, with curly hair, and carrying a silver or gray gun.
D.C. police Assistant Chief Andre Wright stated that the suspect boarded the Green Line train at LEnfant Plaza and engaged in an altercation with the victim. The suspect shot the victim several times and then exited the train at the Waterfront station. The train continued to Navy Yard.
Wright characterized the incident as an isolated event.
Right in the middle of the day.
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Man fatally shot aboard Green Line train in DC (Original Post)
IronLionZion
May 2023
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BOSSHOG
(40,274 posts)1. An isolated event
Its right there in the second amendment. I gotta order some more thoughts and prayers.
IronLionZion
(47,117 posts)2. Yep, a few too many isolated events these days
maybe we should isolate the guns
LoisB
(9,023 posts)3. Whatever happened to fisticuffs behind the school house or in the gym?
IronLionZion
(47,117 posts)4. An armed society is a polite society
LoisB
(9,023 posts)5. Right. I keep forgetting that.