A woman in Washington, DC, is being credited as a hero after she disarmed a shooting suspect who entered the subway car where she was sitting on Wednesday after he allegedly shot four people near the Potomac Avenue subway station. .
The suspect, identified as Isaiah Trotman, allegedly shot and killed a subway employee and wounded three others in the shootout before getting into the car stopped when the door was open at the station.
Robert Cunningham was identified as the subway employee who died from his injuries. The other victims are expected to be okay.
“He got into our car and said, ‘I’m not going to hurt anybody, I’m not going to hurt anybody,'” Shante Trumpet told FOX 5. “He started walking down the aisles, he started yelling.” She started saying that he was a vet. It just seemed like he was manic. He was getting in people’s faces, a man was trying to leave. He said you’re not going anywhere.”
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Shante Trumpet said she was focused on getting the gun away from the suspect and getting off the train.
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She said that all she could think when the suspect got into her car was “I have to get this gun off this train.”
Washington Metropolitan Police officers investigate a shooting at the Potomac Avenue subway station in southeast Washington on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Isaiah Trotman, 31, is in custody for the rampage.
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Trumpet said he sat next to her on the train and appeared to drop the gun..
“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 grabbing the gun. I was thinking I might grab him enough and get him out of here and away from him.
Trumpet said she snatched the gun from him and ran for the door, but he grabbed her. That’s when at least two other passengers, including Timur Skrynnikov, who told FOX 5 he had never been in a situation like it before and felt he reacted out of “instinct,” accosted Trotman.
He grabbed the gun again and ran out of the subway car, throwing it onto the tracks. Trotman was arrested shortly thereafter and charged with murder.
Her fellow travelers hailed her as a “hero.”
“I didn’t imagine that the woman I got on the train with … would be the one to save my life and the lives of many others who were on the train,” passenger Tyrell Knight told FOX 5.
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The suspect shot and killed Robert Cunningham, 64, a subway worker who tried to intervene when the suspect confronted a woman.
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“It’s honestly surreal,” Trumpet said. “I feel like I’m telling someone else’s story, honestly.”
She said that Trotman was not a big guy, and she felt that he was not a threat without the gun.
“Once he didn’t have the gun anymore, he didn’t attack me,” he said. “He just grabbed me, but once the gun was gone, he wasn’t a threat anymore.”
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“I will never forget her,” Knight told the station. “She will always be the person who saved my life the day a man almost took my life.”
Fox News’ Pilar Arias contributed to this report.
