A teenager was injured after he was apparently pushed into the side of a Metro train during a fight at Gallery Place on Monday, prompting delays along the Red Line at the start of the afternoon commute.
The teen was taken to Howard University Hospital, according to Metro, with what a D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman called non-life-threatening injuries.
The incident occurred about 3:35 p.m. when two young men were fighting on the platform and one apparently pushed the other into the last car of a stopped train, according to Metro. The boy hit the side of the train and fell to the platform.
The train was held at the station for about 45 minutes while rescue crews treated the boy, forcing all other Red Line trains to share one track in the area.
No one had been arrested as of Monday evening, a Metro spokeswoman said.
At the start of the school year, Metro’s transit police had said they were cracking down on unruly teens by patrolling stops each afternoon.
— Kytja Weir
