A woman who wrestled gun away from Metro shooter says she acted out of instinct: “He was not going to let us go while he had that gun.”
A woman who wrestled gun away from shooter says she acted out of instinct: ‘He was not going to let us go while he had that gun’A D.C. bicycle officer stands by the scene of the shooting at the Potomac Avenue Metro station Wednesday. He sat in a seat reserved for the elderly, facing the side of the Silver Line Metro car. He was dressed in gray sweats splashed with blood, his right hand holding a gun beside him on the seat.
The two passengers interviewed Friday were among a small group of people who stopped the gunman before police came and arrested him. They said they feared far more casualties had they not taken action.The man with the gun didn’t seem focused, Trumpet recalled. For a split second, she said, he seemed to loosen his grip on the weapon, his hand merely resting atop it, instead of holding it. Trumpet lunged forward, grabbed the firearm and tried to run.
Police said they arrested Trotman moments later, on the underground platform at the station east of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Southeast Washington. He was being detained on Friday at a hospital for mental health observation, according to D.C. police. He is Trumpet’s encounter with the gunman began as the train to L’Enfant Plaza pulled into the Potomac Avenue station about 9:20 a.m. She is an analyst for the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance, which helps low-income residents access medical care.She said she looked out the window as the train came to a stop and saw a man — later identified as Cunningham — on the platform. She looked again and saw blood. Then, Trumpet said, she saw a man standing over him, “kicking him aggressively.
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