Man Indicted for Stabbing a Metro Transit Police Sergeant in the Face

           WASHINGTON – Erik Schleehauf, 43, of Washington, D.C., was indicted in Superior Court on felony charges for the assault of a police officer while armed, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault with significant bodily injury for the April 15, 2025, attack of a Metro Transit Police Officer, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro and Chief Michael Anzallo of the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD).

           Schleehauf was indicted by the grand jury on June 25, 2025. A jury trial is scheduled to begin on July 22, 2025.

           According to government’s evidence, at around 2:26 p.m., on April 15, 2025, at the Navy Yard-Ballpark Metro Station, an MTPD Sergeant observed Schleehauf evade his fare by over the fare machine and jumping over the glass gates on his way out of the Metro Transit System. The MTPD Sergeant followed the defendant as he tried to leave the station using the escalator.  After Schleehauf refused to provide his identification and insisted on leaving without paying, The MTPD Sergeant deployed OC spray. Schleehauf pulled out a sharpened, pointed tool and began to stab the MTPD Sergeant in the face, causing puncture wounds. The MTPD Sergeant suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital for treatment.

           This case is being investigated by the Metro Transit Police Department.

           This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nickolas Reck.

           An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.