WASHINGTON — A homicide investigation is underway after police say a man was found shot to death in a car in Southeast D.C. on Wednesday.
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said that a call came in around 8 p.m. about a shooting in the 4500 block of Benning Road, Southeast.
When first responders arrived at the scene, they found a man, later identified as 45-year-old Marcus Jones, in a vehicle who was unconscious and not breathing. Jones was pronounced dead at the scene.
Homicide investigators were at the scene looking into what happened.
The shooting happened about 100 yards from the Benning Road Metro station, just about 11 hours after a Metro employee was shot and killed while trying to stop a gunman at the Potomac Avenue Metro station.
Anyone with information is asked to contact MPD at (202) 727-9099 or text a tip anonymously at 50411.
A Metro employee was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting at the Potomac Avenue Metro station in D.C. Wednesday morning. Witnesses said the man killed was trying to de-escalate tensions between the gunman and other passengers.
DC Police and Metro Transit Police responded to the reported shooting around 9:45 a.m.
Metropolitan Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict said the Metro worker, identified later as 64-year-old Robert Cunningham, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Two other victims were shot in the leg and hospitalized. Another person suffered a broken finger, according to Benedict.
The incident is believed to have started on a Metro bus, when a passenger, described as someone experiencing a mental crisis, allegedly began brandishing a gun at other passengers, following one off the bus and shooting him in the legs, before heading down into the Metro station.
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