Metro will reopen the Pentagon station and the Pentagon Transit Center on Thursday after closing both facilities while federal authorities investigated a shooting on Tuesday that killed a law enforcement officer.

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       The station and the transit center, two of Northern Virginia’s busiest commuting hubs, went under lockdown Tuesday when law enforcement and first responders swarmed the Defense Department’s headquarters in response to reports of violence in the bus bays.

       Federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday that a Georgia man got off a bus at the transit center, stabbed a Pentagon Force Protection Agency officer on a nearby bus platform, stole the officer’s gun and shot him before turning the gun on himself.

       Slain Pentagon officer was attacked Tuesday ‘without provocation,’ FBI says

       The Pentagon Force Protection Agency on Wednesday identified the slain officer as Senior Officer George Gonzalez, 37, an Iraq War veteran who had been with the agency since 2018.

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       The Pentagon Transit Center, a 24-bay bus depot that serves multiple transit and commuter lines and is on the east side of the Pentagon — and the adjoining Metro station have been closed since the shooting. Buses that service the center were detoured to the Pentagon City Metro station most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday, while trains passed by the Pentagon station without stopping.

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       Metro said Metrobus service at the transit center will resume at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Metrorail service at the Pentagon station will begin at the usual opening time of 5 a.m.

       The transit agency said all other operating bus and rail lines in Metro’s system were running normally.