Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 16, 2005

MTPD to name new substation after slain Officer Marlon Francisco Morales

When the new Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) District I Substation opens next year, it will bear the name of Officer Marlon Francisco Morales, who was killed in the line of duty in 2001.

The Metro Board of Directors today approved the naming and dedication of the police facility after Officer Morales who was shot at the U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial Metrorail station on June 10, 2001, after stopping an individual for fare evasion. Officer Morales died on June 13, 2003, as a result of his wounds.

Metro Board policy authorizes the dedication of WMATA facilities "to the memory of a person whose contributions to the Transit Authority were direct, lasting and uniquely significant."

The District I Substation will be built at the Fort Totten Metrorail station and is scheduled to be completed in fall 2006.

News release issued on June 16, 2005.