Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 5, 2024 / 13:45 pm
The fatal shooting of a teenager at a Metrorail station near the campus of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., led school administrators to issue an order to students and faculty to shelter in place for over two hours on Thursday.
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon on the Metrorail platform adjacent to the university’s campus. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) identified the victim as Avion Evans, a 14-year-old boy from Washington, D.C.
According to an MPD statement shared with CNA on Friday, authorities responded to reports of an incident at the Brookland/Catholic University Metro station at 3:59 p.m. on Thursday.
The MPD statement said that “officers located a male teenager suffering from gunshot wounds” and “after all life-saving measures failed, he was pronounced dead.”