Metro officials say they will look into a Red Line train's emergency call system following a fight at the Woodley Park station Monday.
Two men started fighting aboard a train shortly before the Woodley Park stop, which spilled onto the platform shortly after. Passengers aboard the train told News4 they tried to alert the driver of the train by using the emergency call system but say they got no response.
Yasmine El-Sabawi stood near those buttons as fellow passengers attempted to contact the driver.
"Honestly I was terrified," El-Sabawi said. "There was a woman in front of me and a couple of other people who were ducking just in case there was gunfire, and to think that the emergency button wasn’t working... I was right next to it couldn’t hear anybody responding and I was completely, sort of, paralyzed by my fear."
Metro officials told News4 they believe there was some communication between passengers on the train and the operator because Metro Police were eventually notified of the incident.
The fight was over by the time police arrived. No one was injured, and no charges were filed.
The Woodley Park station was also the site of a fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old man last November.
Last March, News4's I-Team investigated the Metro's emergency call buttons. Our investigation showed almost 170 intercom malfunctions since 2011.
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