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Officials in Washington, D.C., said that police responded to reports of a shot fired at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro Station on Thursday afternoon that left one person injured.
A spokesperson for the Metro Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority told Fox News Digital that the Metro Transit Police Department responded to a report of a shot fired at the metro station shortly after 4 p.m. on the lower level Yellow and Green Line platform.
One female victim suffered a nonlife-threatening injury and declined transportation to a local hospital, the spokesperson said, adding that it’s unclear if the individual was shot.
A commuter waits for a subway train in the L’Enfant Plaza subway station before the start of the morning rush in Washington, D.C.
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
The spokesperson said that a suspect was taken into custody shortly after the incident.
Police are still investigating and working to determine what led to the shooting.
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Green and Yellow line trains are bypassing the L’Enfant Plaza station toward Branch Ave/Huntington while police are investigating the incident, and customers are being taken by Metrobus from Archives to L’Enfant Plaza.
