Police identify man fatally shot by Gaithersburg officers Rebecca Tan, Martin Weil A man fatally shot by Gaithersburg police Friday evening after a foot chase has been identified as Kwamena Ocran, 24, and the officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave, authorities said. On Sunday night, a man was fatally shot near where a candlelight vigil was being held for Ocran. No connection between that shooting and the vigil for Ocran could be learned immediately. On Friday, before the shooting in which Ocran died, officers with the street crimes unit of the Gaithersburg police received information that he was armed with a handgun, Montgomery County police said in a news release. The county police are investigating Ocran’s shooting.
Silver Spring social justice group demands transparency after FBI agent shot person on Metro train
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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SILVER SPRING, Md. - A social justice group based in Silver Spring is calling for transparency after an FBI agent shot a person on a Metro train car in Bethesda.
According to the Silver Spring Justice Coalition, the FBI has not made any information from the incident available to the public – including the victim’s name or condition.
On Thursday, Metro Transit Police indicated that the victim was an adult male. The Silver Spring Justice Coalition is angry at the lack of transparency in this shooting in Bethesda. We expect our local leaders to raise hell about the failure to disclose the circumstances of this shooting. What does it say when the federal government can come into our county and do whatever they want with no accountability.
FBI will not say who was wounded, or why, in shooting on train
Dan Morse and Tom Jackman, The Washington Post
Dec. 17, 2020
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WASHINGTON - At the start of the Tuesday morning commute, an FBI agent was involved in a shooting aboard a Metro Red Line Train in Maryland.
In the 48 hours since, the agency has refused to say who fired a weapon, declined to give the medical condition of the person wounded and provided no details on what led to the shooting or released the name of the agent involved after several inquiries from The Washington Post.
The FBI would not say whether the person who was sent to the hospital was still alive.
Metro rider shot by FBI agent in stable condition Dan Morse, Tom Jackman An FBI agent shot a man as the two rode aboard a Metro Red Line train in Maryland this week, a spokesman for the transit system said Thursday afternoon, as officials remained tight-lipped about the case. The victim “is currently in stable condition, and there were no additional injuries,” the spokesman, Ian Jannetta, said in an email response to questions about the Tuesday morning incident, which officials had previously described only as an “agent-involved shooting.” Authorities have still not provided details about what transpired before the shooting.