Photo via D.C. policeAfter a six-day manhunt, police arrested a suspect who they say fired a gun down an escalator at the Columbia Heights Metro station.
D.C. police officials say that 22 year-old Cesar Morales was arrested in Montgomery County. District authorities will charge him with assault with a deadly weapon.
A Montgomery County Police spokesperson told The Washington Post that someone called about spotting Morales on Thursday around 5:09 p.m. in the parking lot of Westfield Wheaton Mall, and he then ran from police. The spokesperson said an additional bystander told police he saw someone hiding under a car. It was Morales, who officials arrested without incident.
Police have been searching for Morales since he shot a gun down the escalator on August 25 around 12:15 p.m. Police released a video of the incident, which showed a man firing the gun at a victim who was running down the escalator. Police said the suspect was to be considered “armed and dangerous.”
Authorities said that Morales left a halfway house on August 5, The Post reports. He was nearing the end of a five-year sentence on gun charges in connection to a July 2013 shooting in D.C. The Federal Bureau of Prisons listed him as an escapee.
