WJLA reported yesterday on a pretty wild story of a teenager being robbed at gunpoint and then stabbed on a Blue line train two weeks ago. The teen told the news channel that while on a train leaving the Largo Station he was first held at gunpoint, robbed of his cell phone, iPod and wallet, and then stabbed in the thigh — all the while with people getting off and on the same train car, and that no one would help him despite his pleas.

“I think people on the metro didn’t do anything to help me cause they were afraid that it would probably happen to them.” He explained. “It was kind of like they just didn’t care they didn’t want it to happen to them let it happen to someone else.”

Two weeks later the stab wound they inflicted still makes it hard for him to walk.

The teen also said a Metro Transit Police officer was in the train car next to his and did not come to his aid.

If the victim’s story is true, it’s pretty damned upsetting, but we’re having a hard time making heads or tails of his claims. How many people were actually on the same train car? Did none of them actually report the crime to a station manager themselves once they exited the train? Crime on Metro is scary, but how could absolutely no one try to help this kid? The story also quotes unnamed Metro employees as saying they aren’t surprised something like this happened. What would you do if you saw something like this happening on a Metro train?

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