U.S.A: 3 wounded in shooting at Washington D.C. train station during rush hour

Three peo­ple were injured in a sec­ond shoot­ing in less than 24 hours at a train sta­tion in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., offi­cials said.

The inci­dent occurred around 9 a.m. at the Ben­ning Road sta­tion on the Wash­ing­ton Met­ro­pol­i­tan Area Tran­sit Sil­ver and Blue lines, police said.

Poten­tial­ly life-threat­en­ing injuries,” the offi­cial police depart­ment said on Twit­ter after the teenag­er was tak­en to hos­pi­tal. Anoth­er “boy man” and “woman” said their injuries were not life-threatening.

Traf­fic police said the sus­pect fled. The iden­ti­ty of the cul­prit was not imme­di­ate­ly apparent.

At 9:13 a.m., the sta­tion issued a sus­pen­sion warn­ing to pas­sen­gers at the sta­tion. EST.

The inci­dent began ear­ly Wednes­day after­noon when off-duty FBI agents shot and killed a man in a down­town Metro Cen­ter station.

“The inves­ti­ga­tor got into an alter­ca­tion with anoth­er per­son on the sta­tion plat­form short­ly after 6:20 p.m.,” said Ashan Bene­dict, deputy com­mis­sion­er of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police Department.

Dur­ing the argu­ment, one grabbed the oth­er and they both fell eight feet over the side wall off the tracks at the end of the plat­form and con­tin­ued to fight, police said. .

“Both fell over the side of the wall and a fight ensued. We fired while we were fight­ing,” Bene­dict said.