UPDATE: May 14, 2015, 2 p.m.: MARC’s Penn Line service between Washington and Baltimore has been restored after a person was struck by a train north of Union Station.
EARLIER: May 14, 2015, 10:30 a.m.: WASHINGTON — All MARC train service is temporarily suspended after a person was struck and killed by a train in Northeast D.C.
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services and Amtrak police are on the scene at 9th Street and New York Avenue NE.
D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Tim Wilson tells WTOP no patients have been transported from the scene. A WTOP reporter observed a person lying dead on the train tracks.
Maryland Transit Authority spokesman Paul Shepard confirms someone was struck by a MARC train.
It is not clear why the person was on the tracks.
Shepard says Amtrak police are heading the investigation. Metropolitan police are also on the scene.
The incident happened approximately 9:50 a.m.
