MTA bus passenger shot as bullet rips by windshield, misses driver

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MTA bus passenger shot as bullet rips by windshield, misses driver


A 25-year-old MTA bus passenger was shot and wounded in Brooklyn early Sunday when a bullet zipped by the windshield and struck him within the neck, in keeping with police.

The taking pictures occurred shortly earlier than 1:30 a.m. on Hegemon Avenue close to Rockaway Avenue.

Video footage from the scene exhibits a single bullet gap within the windshield close to the driving force’s seat, with the bus knocked out of service whereas the NYPD investigates.

Police mentioned a bullet ripped by the windshield of an MTA bus in Brooklyn Sunday morning, wounding a passenger. Dakota Santiago/FreedomNewsTV
The injured bus passenger was taken to Brookdale Hospital with non-life-threatening accidents. Dakota Santiago/FreedomNewsTV

The unidentified sufferer was taken to Brookdale College Hospital Medical Heart with non-life-threatening accidents.

There have been no arrests within the incident, police mentioned.

Final yr, three folks had been injured when a slug smashed by the window of a BX4 bus within the Bronx — a 59-year-old lady who was grazed within the chest and two 67-year-old passengers who had been struck by flying glass from the bullet.

“As quickly as the sunshine modified and I used to be leaving the bus cease, I heard a gunshot,” bus driver Jose Pabon informed The Put up after the July 2023 incident. “I believed it was a gunman on my bus, that’s how loud it was.”

Police mentioned there have been no arrests. SG For NY Put up
The early morning taking pictures Sunday wounded a passenger on the Brooklyn bus. Dakota Santiago/FreedomNewsTV

The same incident unfolded within the Bronx in 2022, when a 34-year-old gunman opened fireplace throughout a close-by highway rage incident on East Fordham Highway, with two stray photographs flying into the bus.

Nobody was injured in that mishap. In 2021, two MTA bus passengers in Queens had been wounded when a gunman opened fireplace from exterior.


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