---
title: "Man dies after being stabbed at the Pentagon’s public transit stop"
description: "Metro Transit Police tweeted that an investigation into the incident is ongoing. Police did not indicate whether a suspect has been arrested"
date: "2020-03-16"
modified: "2020-03-16"
authors:
  - name: "Jeff Schogol"
    job_title: "Senior Pentagon Reporter"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jeff-schogol/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/man-stabbed-dies-pentagon/"
categories:
  - "Around the World"
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  - "United States"
tags:
  - "Pentagon"
---

# Man dies after being stabbed at the Pentagon’s public transit stop

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A man died on Monday after being stabbed at the Pentagon stop on the public transit system for Washington, D.C, according to Metro Transit Police.

Police responded to the stabbing about 9 a.m. on the Pentagon station’s lower level platform, Metro Transit Police tweeted on Monday.

“The victim, an adult male, was transported to a local hospital where [he was pronounced deceased](<https://twitter.com/MetroTransitPD/status/1239571713895137280>),” the tweet says.

No more information was immediately available.

Later on Monday, Metro Transit Police tweeted that[ Vincent Wilson, 27, was arrested on a warrant for second degree murder](<https://twitter.com/MetroTransitPD/status/1239713942177484800>) in connection with the stabbing death.

**This story was updated after police arrested Vincent Wilson in connection with the stabbing death.**

## Author
Jeff Schogol is the senior Pentagon reporter for Task & Purpose. He reports on both the Defense Department as a whole as well as individual services, covering a variety of topics that include personnel, policy, military justice, deployments, and technology.

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