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For: The opinion Posted 01 Feb 2023, 15:35 pm EST
A Washington DC subway employee died this Wednesday and three public transport users were injured by a man who opened fire on them.
The deputy chief executive of the Metropolitan Police Department of the capital, Ashan Benedict, explained in a press conference that it is “a series of individual events.”
Benedict explained that first the attacker boarded a public bus on 14th Street and Potomac Avenue armedin the southeast of the city, and shot an individual who got out of the vehicle in the leg.
Later, the attacker went to a nearby metro station and wounded in the same way in the leg a man who was buying a ticket. Immediately afterwards, the attacker walked towards the platform and had “some kind of altercation” with a woman, whom the police do not know if he intended to rob her.
At that time there were two Metro employees who saw the scene and came to protect the woman. One of them was shot by the attacker and died.while the other managed to disarm the attacker.
The police officer indicated that at the moment the motives of the armed man, who has been detained by the police, are unknown.
With information from Efe.
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