Metro News Release

For immediate release: March 4, 2010

Pentagon Metrorail station, Pentagon Transit Center reopen

Police investigating shooting near station entrance

The Pentagon Metrorail station and Pentagon Transit Center were closed for about an hour and a half this evening while Pentagon officials investigated a shooting outside the station, as well as unattended packages also outside the station. Both reopened at about 8 p.m. tonight, Thursday, March 4, shortly after the packages were determined not to be of any danger.

The Pentagon Transit Center’s upper level bus bays remain closed to allow police to continue their investigation while all buses are servicing the Center from the lower level. The Pentagon Metrorail station’s south entrance also remains closed, however the north entrance is open and trains are servicing the platform again. The Pentagon Metrorail station serves both the Blue and Yellow Lines.

From about 6:35 to 8 p.m. trains were are passing through the rail station without stopping to pick up or discharge passengers. The Pentagon Transit Center was also closed during that time.

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, not at the bus bays. Pentagon officials are the lead investigators.

News release issued at 8:19 pm, March 4, 2010.