Man dies a month after being shot by off-duty officer at D.C.’s Union Station
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Version 0 of 1. A man shot last month at Union Station in a confrontation with an off-duty police officer died Tuesday, D.C. police said. Rashad Bugg-Bey, 25, of Northeast Washington had been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon in the Nov. 14 incident, in which he allegedly pointed a knife at the Baltimore County officer. D.C. police said that an autopsy was performed but that no cause or manner of death was determined. No information was available about where Bugg-Bey died. Bugg-Bey had been admitted to a hospital in critical condition after the confrontation, which witnesses told police involved several gunshots. A bystander suffered a minor wound, authorities said. The gunfire, coming shortly after last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris, sent a flood of law enforcement officers to the scene, a major public building near the U.S. Capitol. In the immediate aftermath, police released a statement about the incident that included in capital letters: “THIS IS NOT AN ACT OF TERRORISM.” Acording to an account of the Nov. 14 incident filed in court to support an arrest warrant, a woman Bugg-Bey knew was cut while trying to keep him from using a knife to harm himself. He was shot near the top of an escalator from the Metro stop at Union Station after ignoring the off-duty officer’s order to drop the knife. As recently as Dec. 14, he remained in a hospital, according to online court records. The records indicate that under conditions imposed Monday, he was released into third-party custody. |