D.E.A. Agent Is Killed in Shooting at Arizona Amtrak Station

U.S.|D.E.A. Agent Is Killed successful Shooting astatine Arizona Amtrak Station

A national cause enforcement cause was killed and different was earnestly injured successful a chaotic country of gunfire astatine an Amtrak bid presumption successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Monday morning, a metropolis councilman said.

The councilman, Steve Kozachik, said a metropolis constabulary serviceman was besides changeable and was successful unchangeable condition. The injured cause was successful captious condition, Chief Chris Magnus of the Tucson constabulary said astatine a quality league connected Monday afternoon.

What acceptable disconnected the gunfire was not wholly clear, helium said. He said that the agents, from the Drug Enforcement Administration, were conducting a regular expanse of the bid erstwhile 2 radical connected committee reacted to their beingness and 1 opened fire.

It was not wide if each the gunfire happened aboard the bid oregon whether immoderate shots were fired connected the platform, helium said.

One idiosyncratic was successful custody, the Tucson Police Department said connected Twitter, adding aboriginal that it had secured the scene.

The gunfire prompted the evacuation of the Sunset Limited Train 2, which had been carrying 137 passengers and 11 unit members astatine the clip of the shooting, overmuch of which was captured connected live web cameras positioned connected the bid platform.

All of those aboard the train, which had been traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans, were information evacuated, an Amtrak spokesperson said.

The gunfire began astir 8 a.m. section clip portion the double-decker bid was stopped astatine a level astatine the presumption successful Tucson, and intensified astir 15 minutes later, unrecorded web camera footage from the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum showed.

At 1 point, 2 bursts of astatine slightest six shots sounded arsenic 2 people, who appeared to beryllium instrumentality enforcement officers, crouched down a container connected the platform.

In another video, a instrumentality enforcement serviceman with a constabulary canine approached an unfastened doorway of the bid aft shots were fired. Moments later, the serviceman retreated from the bid car arsenic a gunman appeared to unfastened occurrence connected him and the dog.

Evan Courtney, 43, said successful a nonstop connection connected Twitter connected Monday day that helium went to get a java from a cafe adjacent the presumption and returned to the lounge car erstwhile radical came running, yelling “shots fired.”

“I grabbed my backpack and ran,” said Mr. Courtney, an enforcement pastor who runs a web and graphic plan agency. “I looked retired of the model and saw SWAT with battle rifles huddled down barricades.”

Mr. Courtney said that helium was traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans, and that the bid had pulled successful to the Tucson presumption for what was expected to beryllium a 30-minute stop. As of 11:30 a.m. section time, helium said, helium was inactive connected a autobus with different passengers who had been evacuated astatine slightest an hr earlier.

“I truly couldn’t judge this was happening to me,” helium said, adding that it was hard to spot what was taking place. “And I didn’t person immoderate accusation to spell disconnected of. I could combat oregon flight.”

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