A man and a teenage boy were shot inside the Fort Totten Metro station late Thursday night, and a security officer at the station was involved in the shooting, police say.
Just before 11 p.m., a group of people got into a fight at the station on Galloway Street NE, and during the fight, two people struggled over a gun, Metro Transit Police said Friday. At one point during the struggle, the gun fell to the ground and one of the people picked it up and shot a man, police said.
Then, an armed special police officer confronted the shooter and the two fired at each other, police said. Gunfire hit the suspected shooter and the officer detained him after chasing him out of the station, according to police.
Medics took both the teen and the man to a hospital with critical injuries.
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Police said they recovered the suspect's gun by the fare gates.
Metro confirmed the special police officer involved was contracted by Metro assigned to patrol the Fort Totten station.
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