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Police Shoot Deer on Red Line Tracks at Wheaton Station
An injured deer wandering on Metro tracks and a platform in Wheaton caused major delays on the Red Line yesterday before being shot by Metro police, authorities said.
"The deer was all over the place for about four hours," said Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein.
The incident began about 7:30 a.m. with a report of a bleeding deer on the tracks between the Wheaton and Glenmont Metro stations in Montgomery County. The deer jumped on the platform at Wheaton several times, prompting authorities to clear the platform, she said. "It would go on the tracks and back to the platform," Farbstein said.
Trains were run on a single track, causing major delays for more than four hours, Farbstein said. "Trains were running at a very slow speed in an effort not to strike the deer," she said.
Metro Transit Police shot the deer after efforts to drive it away failed, Farbstein said. Residual delays on the Red Line continued until after 1 p.m., she said.
-- Delphine Schrank
THE DISTRICT
Police Identify Man and Woman Killed in Separate Shootings
D.C. police have identified the man found fatally shot Friday night in a car in the Brookland area of Northeast Washington.
They said Rick Kearney, 24, of the 2800 block of Jasper Road SE was found in the passenger side of a car in the 4000 block of Ninth Street NE.
