In Washington, D.C., a gunman shot and killed three people, one of whom was killed.
The attack began in a city bus and ended in a subway tunnel, after which the passengers attacked the shooter and took away his weapon.
Authorities are still trying to establish the circumstances of a series of chaotic events that resulted in the injury of two people with gunshot wounds to the leg and the death of a subway employee.
The police detained the shooter and did not name his identity.
Ashan Benedict, assistant chief of police for Washington, D.C., praised the heroic act of the citizens who disarmed the shooter.
He added: “I’m concerned about the fact that our citizens had to intervene and deal with armed militants.”
The violence began shortly after 9 a.m. when a man brandished a gun at bus passengers in the southeast area of the city.
Benedict said the man kicked the passenger off the bus and shot him in the leg, then went down the escalator at the Potomac Avenue subway station, collided with the man buying the subway ticket and also shot him in the leg. recover in local hospitals.
He stated that the defendant had descended onto the train platform and proceeded to confront the woman, pointing out that a member of the subway network tried to intervene but was killed when the assailant shot him with a bullet.
The shooter then attempted to board the subway, but the passengers apparently collided with him and disarmed him.
Source: AB
