She reported an assault at her desk. Months later, she says she was the one pushed out
A Washington-area transit worker says her employer's response to a workplace assault made a bad situation worse, then pushed her out.
That, in essence, is the account laid out in Duckett v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, No. 1:26-cv-01086, filed April 22, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, Kamryn Duckett, spent roughly six years at WMATA and was working as a Communications Agent at the Metro Integrated Command and Communications Center in Alexandria when, she says, a coworker assaulted her at her desk. Her lawsuit argues that what happened after January 9, 2025, is a case study in how not to handle a harassment report.
On that day, according to the filing, a male coworker came up behind Duckett at her desk, grabbed her jaw, and squeezed while forcing her head back. When she told him he was being too rough, she says he answered that he "liked it rough." She reported the incident to supervisors the same day, filed a police report the next, and obtained a temporary restraining order shortly after. The coworker was later convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery in June 2025 and, after an appeal, convicted again in November 2025. Duckett alleges he remains on WMATA's payroll.
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