ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - St. Louis County Police say a suspect is in custody following a fatal shooting on the Maplewood Manchester MetroLink train on Manchester around 10:00 Saturday morning.
The victim was conveyed to the hospital where he died.
Police say the suspect and victim engaged in a brief altercation on the train then the man was shot.
Authorities are not releasing the names of the either the victim or suspect.
Kevin B. Scott, General Manager of Security for Bi-State Development released the following statement:
Officers were on another area of the same train when the shooting occurred, and immediately arrested the suspect when the train pulled into the station. The swift actions of our St. Louis County Police partners, who are assigned to the MetroLink Police Task Force, are to be commended and no doubt prevented further injuries from occurring on the train or platform.
We are steadfastly committed to improving safety and security our transit system and are diligently moving forward with the Secure Platform Plan. While heat of the moment incidents like this one are impossible to predict, new high security gates to access the platform, new fencing and other improvements like the surveillance camera monitoring capabilities from the Real Time Camera Center, will help make the transit system safer for our customers, our police and security partners, and our team members.
We are disappointed when any incident happens in our city or on our transit system, but we cannot prevent the crime occurring in the region from spilling over on our transit system.
We can promise that rigorous collaboration with our police partners is a high priority and that we will always provide a professional response. We remain committed to our fundamental security approach — partnerships, infrastructure investments, and a gated platform access system.
Service was halted between the Brentwood 64 Station to Shrewsbury Lansdown-44 and shuttle buses transported passengers during the investigation. Service has been restored.
