Multiple people, including a police officer, were brought to hospitals Friday after a gun discharged during a scuffle involving a knife-wielding man and officers at a Boston transit station, authorities said.The incident started with a report of a man with a butcher knife at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Forest Hills station, threatening people and trying to cut the tires of a bus at about 11:30 a.m., MBTA Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan said. When officers at the station attempted to take the man into custody, one of the officers’ guns discharged.”A struggle ensued, and instantly, the suspect grabbed for the officer’s weapon. They continued to struggle, and ultimately the officers gained control of him during that initial struggle,” Sullivan said. “Somehow there was a discharge of the officer’s weapon.”Sullivan said no one was hit by the bullet, but an officer sustained a knee injury and was taken to a hospital. A second officer was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. “How that weapon discharged will be part of the investigation,” Sullivan said. The man was taken into custody and will face charges, Sullivan said. Video: Gunshot fired during struggle with suspect carrying knife at Forest Hills, Transit police sayAt 11:30 a.m., the MBTA said Forest Hills Upper Busway was temporarily closed because of the police activity. Two witnesses told sister station WCVB that they heard a single shot, saw two people injured, including a uniformed Transit police officer who was taken from the scene on a stretcher. The officer was alert, witnesses said. “I was just getting off of work, heard a shot, heard a scream and looked out the window. I saw someone down in the busway, and someone was tending to them,” witness Riley McMullan said. “Immediately, like sirens and a ton of police cars pulled up.” Boston EMS said it took six people to area hospitals. Sullivan was not sure why the other people went to the hospital.
Multiple people, including a police officer, were brought to hospitals Friday after a gun discharged during a scuffle involving a knife-wielding man and officers at a Boston transit station, authorities said.
The incident started with a report of a man with a butcher knife at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Forest Hills station, threatening people and trying to cut the tires of a bus at about 11:30 a.m., MBTA Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan said.
When officers at the station attempted to take the man into custody, one of the officers’ guns discharged.
“A struggle ensued, and instantly, the suspect grabbed for the officer’s weapon. They continued to struggle, and ultimately the officers gained control of him during that initial struggle,” Sullivan said. “Somehow there was a discharge of the officer’s weapon.”
Sullivan said no one was hit by the bullet, but an officer sustained a knee injury and was taken to a hospital. A second officer was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“How that weapon discharged will be part of the investigation,” Sullivan said.
The man was taken into custody and will face charges, Sullivan said.
Video: Gunshot fired during struggle with suspect carrying knife at Forest Hills, Transit police say
At 11:30 a.m., the MBTA said Forest Hills Upper Busway was temporarily closed because of the police activity.
Two witnesses told sister station WCVB that they heard a single shot, saw two people injured, including a uniformed Transit police officer who was taken from the scene on a stretcher. The officer was alert, witnesses said.
“I was just getting off of work, heard a shot, heard a scream and looked out the window. I saw someone down in the busway, and someone was tending to them,” witness Riley McMullan said. “Immediately, like sirens and a ton of police cars pulled up.”
Boston EMS said it took six people to area hospitals. Sullivan was not sure why the other people went to the hospital.
