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DC Metro employee killed trying to stop shooter ‘heroic,’ suspect identified
The 64-year-old Metro transit worker shot and killed in Washington, D.C., Wednesday whereas making an attempt to cease a gunman is remembered for being “heroic.”
“Metro is mourning the lack of a heroic worker, Robert Cunningham, who intervened on behalf of a buyer at this time at Potomac Avenue Station and was a sufferer of mindless gun violence,” a Metro assertion reads.
Metro has lowered its flags to half-staff in his honor.
The incident involving Cunningham’s loss of life started as an altercation on board a Metrobus close to 14th Avenue and Potomac shortly after 9 a.m., Government Assistant Chief of Police Ashan M. Benedict stated at a press convention.
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An armed man, later recognized as 31-year-old Isaiah Trotman, shot three folks, killing one, in a morning rampage that began on a metropolis bus and resulted in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him.
(AP Picture/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
An individual with a gun, later recognized as 31-year-old Isaiah Trotman of Southeast D.C., was partaking passengers on the bus and adopted considered one of them off earlier than taking pictures them within the leg.
Police say the gunman then went down the Potomac Avenue Metro station escalator to the station platform and approached somebody who was making an attempt to purchase a Metro card. Benedict stated the gunman shot that individual and tried to deliver them over the fare gate turnstile, however the sufferer was capable of break away.
Trotman then allegedly went farther down the escalator, the place he confronted a girl. That’s the place Metro worker Cunningham tried to intervene however was shot and killed by the gunman.
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Washington Metropolitan Law enforcement officials examine a taking pictures at Potomac Avenue Metro Station, in Southeast Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Isaiah Trotman, 31, is in custody for the rampage.
(AP Picture/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trotman then tried to board a Metro practice and was apparently confronted and disarmed by the passengers. He exited the practice automobile and was taken into custody by law enforcement officials, who additionally recovered his weapon on the practice tracks, Benedict stated.
Carol Wayman lives close by and instructed FOX 5 DC her account of what occurred.
“I noticed all these folks simply run, take off. Run chaotically. Leaping over fences,” Wayman recalled. “I am simply horrified that three folks have been shot and Robert Cunningham was killed, a mechanic simply doing his job.”
“I simply left assembly with a gaggle of [Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority] crew members, lots of whom labored with our hero colleague Mr. Cunningham. Their look after one another will get us by means of this tragedy. A request to our clients, please present persistence and style to our crew as we mourn & get well,” Metro Normal Supervisor and Chief Government Officer Randy Clarke tweeted early Thursday morning.
Trotman is at the moment in custody, being charged with first-degree homicide whereas armed, kidnapping whereas armed, and assault with a harmful weapon, based on FOX 5.
Flowers lie on the Potomac Avenue Metro station in Washington, D.C., after 64-year-old Robert Cunningham was killed making an attempt to cease an energetic shooter.
(FOX 5 DC)
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The opposite three victims injured in the course of the assault are anticipated to be okay.
Police are nonetheless on the lookout for a motive and asking witnesses with video to name 202-727- 9000.
The Related Press contributed to this report.