Metro News Release

For immediate release: October 27, 2006

Woman Killed by Red Line Train Identified

Metro Transit Police have identified the woman struck and fatally injured by a Red Line train at the Bethesda Metrorail station earlier today.

According to Police, eyewitnesses reported that a 31-year-old resident of Washington D.C., intentionally stepped in front of a six-car train traveling to the Glenmont Metrorail station at 9:10 a.m. The station was closed and trains shared one track between the Medical Center and Friendship Heights stations on the Red Line for about three hours. Normal service resumed after noon.

Customers experienced significant delays in the area. Metro operated 14 shuttle buses and moved 1,158 passengers between the Medical Center and Friendship Heights Metrorail stations.

Metro Transit Police and Montgomery County fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene.

News release issued on October 27, 2006.