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Maryland jury finds FBI agent who shot man inside Red Line train not guilty
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Maryland jury finds FBI agent who shot man inside Red Line train not guilty
Abigail Constantino | aconstantino@wtop.com
December 2, 2022, 11:55 PM
An FBI agent accused of attempted murder inside a Metrorail train in Maryland has been found not guilty.
A jury in Montgomery County found Eduardo Valdivia not guilty on Friday. He was accused of shooting another passenger twice inside a Red Line train near the Medical Center station in Bethesda back in December 2020.
Passenger Steven Slaughter survived the shooting.
Valdivia’s defense team were teary-eyed as the verdict was read, and defense attorney Robert Bonsib said that Valdivia should never have been put in this position.
“All he wanted to do that day was go to work, come home and be with his family” on Dec. 15, 2020, when Slaughter, who was panhandling, approached Valdivia on the train. The two exchanged words, after which, Valdivia shot Slaughter, striking him in the abdomen and in the arm.
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WTOP’s Dimitri Sotis and Kate Ryan, who reported from Montgomery County, contributed to this report.
Abigail Constantino
Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.
aconstantino@wtop.com
Maryland jury finds FBI agent who shot man inside Red Line train not guilty
Abigail Constantino | aconstantino@wtop.com
December 2, 2022, 11:55 PM
An FBI agent accused of attempted murder inside a Metrorail train in Maryland has been found not guilty.
A jury in Montgomery County found Eduardo Valdivia not guilty on Friday. He was accused of shooting another passenger twice inside a Red Line train near the Medical Center station in Bethesda back in December 2020.
Passenger Steven Slaughter survived the shooting.
Valdivia’s defense team were teary-eyed as the verdict was read, and defense attorney Robert Bonsib said that Valdivia should never have been put in this position.
“All he wanted to do that day was go to work, come home and be with his family” on Dec. 15, 2020, when Slaughter, who was panhandling, approached Valdivia on the train. The two exchanged words, after which, Valdivia shot Slaughter, striking him in the abdomen and in the arm.
{snip}
WTOP’s Dimitri Sotis and Kate Ryan, who reported from Montgomery County, contributed to this report.
Abigail Constantino
Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.
aconstantino@wtop.com