Thursday, 4:30 PM
Police hunt for lone gunman after T bus shooting
Boston Police are hunting for a lone gunman who opened fire on an MBTA bus in Dorchester and shot at least one person in the head.
Police said the shooting occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. this afternoon at the corner of Columbia Road and Washington Street.
Joe Pesaturo, MBTA spokesman, said one person was shot on the Route 23 bus around 95 Washington St. The bus was outbound headed to Ashmont from Ruggles. "The bus operator reported that three males fled the bus after the shooting," Pesaturo said.
"The person has sustained a very serious gunshot wound to the head," he said.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is on his way to the scene to talk to reporters.
The condition of the victim is not known, but Boston Police homicide investigators have been called to the scene to join the crime scene probe.
The shooting happened just hours after the New York-based Guardian Angels were to begin patrols in the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
Sliwa told The Associated Press on Friday that his patrol did not reach Grove Hall, and was about a mile away at the time of the shooting.
Sliwa said the decision to return was cemented after the murder of Chiara Levin, 22, made news headlines in New York and Boston. Levin, a Kentucky native living in New York, was shot as she innocently sat in a car outside a Dorchester house party early Saturday morning.
There have been 14 murders in Boston this year, compared to 10 at this time last year.
