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The Special Police Officer who fatally shot a man at Union Station in September will not be charged, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced today.

William T. Wilson was shot by the unnamed security guard shortly after Wilson stabbed a woman just outside the train station.

According to evidence assembled by the U.S. Attorney’s office, the woman told a security officer that she had a restraining order out against Wilson, but he was following and threatening to kill her. A second officer tried to intervene before Wilson took out a knife and repeatedly stabbed the woman. Three officers ordered him to drop the knife. Instead he headed back in toward the station, where one of the officers tried to block his path. When Wilson raised his knife when moving toward him, the Special Police Officer fired one shot, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

After conducting a review, the office “concluded that the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer who was involved in the shooting used excessive force or possessed the requisite criminal intent at the time of the events.”

Wilson died several hours later from his injuries. The woman was treated for non-life threatening stab wounds to her shoulder, chest, back, and hand.