Gaithersburg teen sentenced for 2023 murder at Wheaton Metro Station

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for a deadly shooting that happened at the Wheaton Metro Station in 2023.

On May 18, 2023, Montgomery County Police, Metro Transit Police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services all responded to the station for a shooting just before 6 p.m.

There, they found 18-year-old Tenneson Vaughn Leslie, Jr. unresponsive on the metro platform.

He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a few hours later.

Investigators said that a fight broke out as a group of boys were going down an escalator. As Leslie and a few other were running from the escalator, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said that then-16-year-old Emmanuel Simmonds pulled out a gun and shot him in the back of the head.

Simmonds’s co-defendant, a 14-year-old boy, was seen on surveillance footage throwing the magazine with live ammo on the ground before boarding the train...

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