A 25-year-old MTA bus rider was shot and wounded in Brooklyn early Sunday morning when a bullet ricocheted off the windshield and struck him in the neck, according to police.
The shooting happened on Hegmon Avenue near Rockaway Avenue shortly before 1:30 a.m.
Video footage from the scene shows a bullet hole in the windshield near the driver’s seat, while the bus is out of service while the NYPD investigates.
The unidentified victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said no arrests have been made in the incident.
Last year, three people were injured The slug hit the window On a BX4 bus in the Bronx – a 59-year-old woman whose chest was scratched and two 67-year-old passengers who were injured by flying glass from the shooting.
“As the light changed and I was pulling out of the bus stop, I heard a gunshot,” bus driver Jose Pabon told The Post after the July 2023 incident. “I thought it was a gunman on my bus, that’s how loud it was.”
A similar incident came to light in the Bronx in 2022, when a 34 year old gunman opened fire During a road rage incident nearby on East Fordham Road, two stray bullets struck the bus.
No one was injured in that accident. In 2021, Two MTA bus passengers injured in Queens When a gunman started firing from outside.
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