Metro News Release

For immediate release: March 4, 2010

Pentagon Metrorail station, Pentagon Transit Center closed

Police investigating shooting near station entrance

The Pentagon Metrorail station and Pentagon Transit Center are closed while Pentagon officials investigate a shooting outside the station, as well as suspicious packages also outside the station. Trains are passing through the rail station without stopping to pick up or discharge passengers.

Buses that usually pick up and drop off riders at the Pentagon Transit Center are now picking up and dropping off passengers at the sidewalk near the Pentagon City Metrorail station at South Hayes Street in Arlington.

Customers who usually exit the Pentagon Metrorail station to catch a bus should instead exit at the Pentagon City Metrorail station and look for their bus along South Hayes Street. Customers who usually exit their bus at the Pentagon to catch a train should exit their bus at Pentagon City Metrorail station.

The Pentagon Metrorail station has two banks of entryway escalators that lead to the underground station, with one of the Pentagon building’s entrances located between the rail station’s entrances. The preliminary report is that the incident took place along the sidewalk adjacent to the station and building entrances.

The incident began at approximately 6:35 p.m. tonight, Thursday, March 4.

News release issued at 7:49 pm, March 4, 2010.