Welcome to Friday, Alexandria. Here’s a look at the top stories of the week.
ALXnow’s top story this week is on the man who was struck by a train at the Potomac Yard Metro station on September 22 and later died at George Washington University Hospital. Metro Transit Police stated at the time that the man had trespassed onto the tracks, and an investigation revealed that he was being chased by two alleged fare evaders: a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old female, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
The incident occurred at around 3:15 p.m., after the man walked through the fare gates, and then forced the gates behind him to close so that he would not be followed. The man who was later struck was then chased and followed into a Metro train and back to the platform where the teenagers were both recorded by video surveillance “physically striking the victim,” according to the search warrant affidavit…