Caution: Details of this tragedy are disturbing.
The man killed in an attack at the Addison Road Metro station last week was brutally beaten with a pipe after a stranger approached him at random as he headed to work, authorities say.
Stanley Hutchinson III was the victim of the attack early Thursday. He was 61.
“It’s troubling. Mr. Hutchinson was going to work, so it appears, at 5 a.m.,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson said about the attack captured on video.
Charging documents say suspected attacker Nocholas Duncan, 30, grabbed a metal pipe from a pile outside the station’s entrance and then walked in and then out of the station with the pipe in a shoulder bag.
At one point, Duncan “appeared to verbally interact” with Hutchinson, the documents say.
Hutchinson was walking away when Duncan allegedly pulled the pipe from his bag and hit him in the back of the head. Hutchinson fell to the ground.
Duncan allegedly continued to hit Hutchinson in the head and face and then picked up a clear bottle, poured an “unknown liquid” on his head, stomped on his head and face area and walked away.
There was no apparent motive.
News4 video from Thursday shows officers collecting a metal pipe believed to the murder weapon.
Jackson described what she’s learned about who Hutchinson was.
“He was a hard worker. In fact, he was known as a gentle giant and would do anything, as his family described, for his family and friends. And he was brutally attacked in the Metro station,” she said.
When detectives detained Duncan at a bus stop on Addison Road, they said he had blood on his legs, shoes and clothing.
Duncan was charged with first- and second-degree murder. He was denied bond at a court appearance Monday. Prosecutors said he is homeless and has an extensive criminal record dating back to 2012.
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