Woman Injured After Bullet Shatters Glass On MTA Bus In Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A woman riding a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus in Bushwick, Brooklyn was rushed to the hospital after a shooting Friday afternoon.
As CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported, the remarkably calm bus driver was led away from the shooting scene, which left a bullet hole in the side of his city bus. The bullets flew as the B13 bus pulled onto a stop on Wyckoff Avenue between Harman Street and Green Avenue around 2:30 p.m.
Surveillance video showed two women and a child scampering into a store for cover, and four people running away.
"They come in the store because they scream, and they were screaming. And I said, 'Yo, what happened? 'They said, 'Oh, two guys, they were like boom, boom,'" said store worker Emran Dihab.
Late Friday, police were reviewing the surveillance video, hoping it would lead them to the suspects who fired directly into the occupied city bus.
The bullet entered through one window, and passed straight through to the other. The shattered glass cut one woman's head.
The woman, who was in her 60s, was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where she was treated and released.
But the bullet itself just barely missed the driver and the other passengers onboard.
"Had anyone been sitting in that seat where the bullet exited, that person would be dead, because it was face level," said community activist Tony Herbert.
Marcela Gomez was right across the street when the gunfire erupted. Her daughter told CBS2 her mother ran into a nearby restaurant for safety.
"She said she was kind of scared because she didn't even know what happened," the girl said.
No one was in custody in the shooting late Friday.
