Metro Bus, Rail Service To Return Thursday At Pentagon Station

ARLINGTON, VA — The Pentagon Station and the Pentagon Transit Center will reopen Thursday morning for rail and bus riders.

Metro temporarily suspended service to these facilities on Tuesday morning to allow police to investigate the fatal incident that occurred at the bus bays.

Bus service will resume at 4:30 a.m. at the transit center and the Yellow and Blue Metrorail lines will start service at 5 a.m., when they'll begin stopping at Pentagon Station.

For the rest of Tuesday, buses and trains will continue to bypass the Pentagon and take customers to Pentagon City, where they can grab a bus or train to take them to their final destination.

Normal operations will also resume at the Metro Entrance Facility, Visitor Entrance Facility, Mall, River, Corridors 2, 5, and 8 entrances at the Pentagon, according to a post on the Pentagon Force Protection Agency's official Twitter account.

Around 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday, a man exiting a bus attacked PFPA Officer George Gonzalez with a knife without provocation, according to the FBI.

The assailant, whom the FBI identified as Austin William Lanz, 27, of Acworth, Georgia, struggled with Gonzalez and then shot himself with the officer's service weapon. Other PFPA officers engaged with Lanz, who died at the scene.

Gonzalez was transported to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. to be treated for severe injuries. He was pronounced dead later that evening.