All have been evacuated to the station.Įvan Courtney was in a lounge car when people suddenly came running in yelling: “Shots fired!” There were 137 passengers and 11 crew members, he said. The Sunset Limited, Train 2, was traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans, and arrived at the Tucson station at 7:40 am, Abrams said. “I just think it’s kind of incredible here there weren’t other people who were hurt, even though we’re completely so saddened by the loss of the officer,” Magnus said.Īmtrak spokesman Jason Abrams also confirmed there were no reported injuries to the crew or other passengers. There were about a dozen other passengers in the car where the shooting occurred. He was shot when he ran into the car to help. The hospitalized Tucson officer had been on the platform when he heard the shooting. Magnus praised Tucson police officers for getting the injured DEA agent off the train and rushing him to the hospital in the back of a patrol car. It wasn’t immediately known what charges he faces or his relationship to the second man. He exchanged several rounds with police and then barricaded himself in a bathroom on the lower level, Magnus said. Officers were in the middle of detaining a man on the upper level of the double-decker car when a second man pulled out a handgun and began firing. It’s a common occurrence at all transit hubs, Magnus said. A regional task force of DEA agents and Tucson police officers had boarded one of the cars to do a typical check for illegal money, weapons and drugs. on a train stopped at the station in the city’s downtown. The FBI has taken over the investigation of the shooting, which sent passengers fleeing. He said authorities would not be releasing their names. The agent was listed in critical condition while the officer was in stable condition. Magnus spoke outside the hospital where the wounded agent and Tucson officer had been taken. They literally ran towards the danger, into the car, where there was an active shooting situation going on.” “But I also want to reflect on the really heroic actions of the officers at the scene. “It’s very horrific and we’re all just coming to terms with just how terrible a loss this is,” Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus said. A second agent and a Tucson police officer were wounded. A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed Monday when a passenger, who also died, opened fire as officers were doing a routine inspection for illegal contraband on an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona, authorities said.

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