"He pulled out a gun at first and then held me at gunpoint on the train," the teenage victim told ABC 7/NewsChannel 8. "They took my cell phone my iPod, my credit card, my I.D., everything I had and still he wasn't satisfied."
The victim explained the the two suspects came up to him as the train left the Largo Station just after 8:30 p.m.
"They came up to me and told me that this was a robbery and we are going to rob you of everything you and if not we are going to kill you," the victim said.
After several stops one of the men plunged the blade into the teenagers thigh. All this while numerous passengers got on and off the train.
"I think people on the metro didn't do anything to help me cause they were afraid that it would probably happen to them." He explained. "It was kind of like they just didn't care they didn't want it to happen to them let it happen to someone else."
Two weeks later the stab wound they inflicted still makes it hard for him to walk.
Regular Blue Line passenger Darian Lomax says he half expects to get assaulted on his nightly metro ride. "Either you are going to get robbed you going a get stabbed or get shot up or beat up by a couple people," Lomax said.
The rush of blood eventually drove the two suspects from the train at Benning Road. The victim now alone begged someone to call 911, but still no one responded. He got help when he staggered to an emergency call box at Stadium Armory.
A station manager says she's not surprised by this incident or the passenger's response. "We are afraid ourselves," she said.
"It's not enough policemen to patrol this place number one, number two is there is so much going on and these kids are so much out of control," another Metro employee told ABC 7/NewsChannel 8.
Metro police officers are suppose to routinely patrol rail cars and when the victim boarded the train he saw an officer in the next car. However, he claims, the officer stayed in the other car talking to the train conductor and did not come to his aid.
So someone needs help during a vicious attack--in a crowded place... If EVERYONE came to the person's aid, the attackers would be much more likely to be defeated and the person would be much more likely to be saved. They can't shoot or stab everyone (and the likelihood that they actually want to shoot or stab a bunch of strangers is even less likely).
Step up to the plate folks and others will follow. This is a prime example of how we can start to make a difference in how we work together as a society to make positive change. We CAN change attitudes about altruism and how we deal with other human beings. We CAN make our cities and towns safer places to live.
We just need to step up and show everyone how it is done. Life is not a video game--show your humanity every day.
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