A tiny piece of crime scene tape left behind on Thursday is the only visible sign of what happened at a Wheaton bus stop Wednesday afternoon -- a stabbing that left one man dead.
Family members of the victim identify him as 28-year-old Monte Cunningham.
He was stabbed to death around 12:25 p.m. Wednesday near the bus stop on Amherst Avenue in Wheaton.
According to police, there was an argument. Words exchanged between two men on the Metrobus turned into a fight when they got off the bus at the Amherst Avenue stop.
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Cunningham was stabbed during the fight, and the attacker ran off.
A family member of the victim said Cunningham was raised in the area. He was a hard worker, they said, and wasn't the kind of person who would start a fight.
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Montgomery County police are taking the lead in the investigation. Among the evidence they'll be looking at is surveillance video, both on and off the bus.
On-board video captured another terrifying incident in February on a Metrobus on Lockwood Drive in White Oak.
A gunman got onto that bus and confronted a passenger seated in the rear of the vehicle. Shots were fired and the rider, 18-year-old Justice Elliott, died at the scene.
The suspect in that shooting is still at large -- just like the attacker in Thursday's stabbing.
