Shante Trumpet said when a suspected shooter sat down next to her in a Washington, D.C. metro car all she could think abut was getting the gun away from him.
FOX 5 spoke with Shante Trumpet, the woman who helped disarm the gunman at the Potomac Avenue Metro stop Wednesday., is being credited as a hero after she disarmed a shooting suspect who entered the metro car where she was sitting on Wednesday after he allegedly shot four people near the Potomac Avenue Metro station.
"He walked into our car, he’s like ‘I’m not going to hurt anybody, I’m not going to hurt anybody’," Shante Trumpet told FOX 5."He started walking up and down the aisles, he started yelling. He started saying he was a vet. He was just, it looked like he was manic. He was getting in people’s faces, one man was trying to leave. He said you’re not going anywhere."Shante Trumpet said she was focused on getting the gun away from the suspect and off the train.
Washington Metropolitan Police officers investigate a shooting at Potomac Avenue Metro Station, in Southeast Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Isaiah Trotman, 31, is in custody for the rampage."I wasn’t listening to anything he was saying," she told FOX 5."I was just looking at the gun, and I was looking at the door. And I was looking that he wasn’t gripping the gun. I was thinking I could grab it enough and get it out of here and get it away from him.
She grabbed the gun again and ran off the subway car, throwing it on the tracks. Trotman was arrested soon after and charged with murder."I did not imagine that the woman who I got on the train with … would be the one to save my life and many others who were on the train," passenger Tyrell Knight told FOX 5.
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