Officials in Washington said the Potomac Avenue Metro station was open again on Friday morning, after transit police fatally shot a man while responding to a call about an “unauthorised person” on the tracks in a subway tunnel.



Metro transit police spokesman Mike Tolbert said the Potomac Avenue station reopened on Friday morning, hours after the shooting. Tolbert said he had no details about the man, what he was doing in the tunnel or what prompted police to shoot him. He said no officers were injured.

Tolbert said Washington police were leading the investigation into the shooting.

Tolbert said the station, about a mile and a half from the US Capitol building, was closed after the shooting and trains that normally stop there bypassed the station, but it reopened at its usual time on Friday morning.