DC Man Found Guilty Of Murder In Stabbing Caught On Metro Bus Camera

WHEATON, MD — A Montgomery County jury found a Washington, D.C., man guilty of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing a man last April after both men got off a Metro bus in Wheaton.

Tyrone Curtis, 35, was found guilty of first-degree murder in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Jan. 24 for the death of 29-year-old Amontae Cunningham of Rockville.

Curtis faces the potential of life in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 5, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office.

On April 5, 2023, at about 12:25 p.m., Curtis and Cunningham got into an argument on a Metro Transit bus in Wheaton. Cunningham got off the bus when it stopped in front of 11304 Amherst Avenue.

Curtis followed Cunningham off of the bus with his knife blade out and to his side, and then stabbed Curtis one time in the upper torso, according to the state attorney’s office. Cunningham fell on the sidewalk. Video of the incident was captured by surveillance cameras on the bus.

“This was a verbal altercation between strangers that the defendant senselessly escalated,” State’s Attorney John McCarthy said in a statement Monday. “There was zero justification for the use of a deadly weapon, and he will pay the consequences.”

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