Victim describes attack at L’Enfant Plaza subway station – NBC4 Washington

A woman was attacked at the ticket counter at L’Enfant metro station on her way home from work on Wednesday evening.

The woman was attacked by three teenagers who not only beat her but also tasered her. She has now suffered a concussion.

News4 does not mention her name or show her face, but she had bruises around both eyes.

“I have nightmares. I wake up in the middle of the night and see some kind of silhouette,” she said. “The gate opens and here comes the danger to you.”

She suspects they may have been trying to evade the fare.

It started with a push:

“And then suddenly I got a punch in the face,” said the victim.

She said the memories disappeared temporarily and were due to the concussion.

“Then I remember being shot at with a Taser really, really hard, and I remember being shot at over and over again,” the victim said. “Then I remember trying to get up, and then I remember somebody hitting me really, really hard in the head and back from behind. All I remember is I was trying to protect myself.”

Amidst the blows, she screamed for help – screams that went unanswered.

1 “I remember asking people, ‘Help me, help me,’ and then there was a group of people standing in a semicircle and no one helped me,” the victim said.

She also said that the attack was within sight of the station guard’s cabin, but that no one from there intervened in the attack, which was over as quickly as it had begun.

The arrests were also made quickly. Two suspects were arrested the next day.

But the situation has calmed down for the victim. Since the day after the attack, she has not heard anything from the public prosecutor’s office or victim support services.

It will be at least three weeks before she can return to work. In fact, it was the first time she left her home since the attack.

Added to their nightmares is the living nightmare that their attackers will not receive justice:

“I just don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she said.