A 50-year-old shuttle bus driver shot and killed a co-worker in a fight on the former Walter Reed Medical Center campus, police said.
The gunman and the 45-year-old victim, Brian Andre Gibson of northwest D.C., had a bad history with one another and got into an argument which escalated into a fight Friday morning, police said. At some point, the 50-year-old man pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the 6900 block of Georgia Avenue NW, police say.
"They got into a physical altercation," D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said. "It was a pretty serious assault that was going on. One of them ended up producing a handgun, shot the other, and he has been pronounced on the scene."
Both men were drivers for a construction company taking construction workers to various job sites.
Police have not identified the 50-year-old man or the construction company. They are questioning the 50-year-old man. No charges have been filed as of 6 p.m. Friday.
People in the area heard the shots and ducked for cover. Erlah Vardikos was there with her three children.
“I heard some gunshots,” she said. “I told my kids immediately run across the street. We zigzagged because we were afraid to fall down on the ground because it was an open area.”
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“It’s frightening because I live right across the street and my kids are afraid to catch the bus now,” Vardikos said.
Walter Reed Medical Center left its home in Northwest Washington in 2011 and relocated to Bethesda, Maryland. Last year, the District signed a deal with the U.S. Army to take over 66 acres of the Georgia Avenue site.
CORRECTION (4:15 p.m., Dec. 8, 2017) Sources previously told News4 the victim was 20 years old, not 45.
