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Shooting at Wheaton Metro station leaves one person dead

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UPDATE:
On May 24, a 16-year-old was arrested in connection to the murder. He is being charged as an adult.

A 14-year-old was also arrested and is being charged with accessory after the fact.

ORIGINAL STORY:
A man was killed in a shooting inside the Wheaton Metro station Thursday evening.

Just before 6 p.m., Montgomery County Police responded to the metro station on Georgia Avenue for a shooting.

Officers learned that the shooting was caused by a fight that broke out between two groups on the escalator.

As the fight escalated, a 18-year-old Tenneson Vaughn Leslie, Jr., was shot on the train platform.

He was taken to the hospital where he later died.

The Montgomery County Police Department is investigating this shooting.