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Somebody getting roobed at the University of Maryland is nothing new but I am a regular user of the College Park Metro and people getting robbed there hits home.

The Diamondback - A group of eight people were robbed at gunpoint while waiting for a Shuttle-UM bus early Saturday morning at the College Park Metro Station, handing over money, cell phones and a North Face jacket before the suspects fled, witnesses said.

The victims were huddled under the shelter at the bus stop around 1:40 a.m. when the suspects, who had followed some of the victims off the Metro, approached the group. One of the suspects brandished a gun, while another collected the victim's possessions and a third allegedly kept watch for metro security, said Victor Jeng, a junior electrical engineering major who was waiting at the bus stop with two friends before he was robbed.

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The Shuttle-UM bus arrived shortly after the incident at around 1:50 a.m., and the victims told the bus driver, who dialed 911, Barnes said. Metro Transit Police came to the scene, where a detective got the victims' information and took notes. No one was injured.

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This is the second reported armed robbery at the College Park Metro Station this semester. In September, two armed men robbed a cab driver outside the station on River Road, after holding guns to his head and side before leaving the scene.

In early May 2003, a 48-year-old man was fatally stabbed at the Metro station after getting into a fight with another man - the only murder at a Washington-area Metro station that year.