WASHINGTON — A teenage boy and a man are recovering following a late-night shooting inside the Fort Totten Metro Station, according to police.
Investigators say a fight broke out between a group Thursday night just before 11 p.m. Two people began struggling over a gun, the weapon fell to the ground and one of them picked it up and shot a man according to police.
Metro says a special police officer assigned to the station confronted the alleged shooter and that there was an exchange of gunfire between the security guard and the gunman who was struck by the gunfire.
The security guard apprehended the suspected shooter outside the station and the weapon was recovered near fare gates according to police.
Metro Transit Police have yet to reveal what led to the initial fight and whether the shooter that was arrested is an adult or a teenager.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department will be investigating the incident because the security guard discharged his weapon.
"I'm getting tired of this," John Ayala, the founder of D.C. Guardian Angels told WUSA9 outside the Fort Totten station. His volunteer group has been patrolling the Green Line after a Metro worker was shot and killed in February attempting to stop a gunman at the Potomac Avenue Metro Station.
Ayala says they are focusing their efforts on the Green Line because that is where his group sees most of the rider complaints.
"We are going to have constantly have violence on the green line because we don't have Metro Transit Police officers and plain clothes police officers," Ayala added.
In March, Brendan Ofari, 17, of Fort Washington, was shot on board a Green Line train.
Police said the suspect apparently argued with the victim the train.
The gunman shot Ofari and then got off at the Waterfront station in Southwest D.C., police said. The train stopped at Navy Yard after the shooting.
Ayala says they are seeing far too many altercations among young people on and off the train, and that often they are recorded and uploaded on social media platforms. "We have to try to deter that from happening because when the fights start that's when you have someone pulling out a blade and stabbing someone," he added.
The D.C. Guardian Angels say they will be back on the Green Line trains including the Fort Totten Station.
No further information has been released about the people involved in the Thursday night shooting.