Two Men Shot In MBTA Maverick Station
EAST BOSTON (CBS) -- Two people have been shot inside the Maverick MBTA station in East Boston, according to Boston Police.
The incident occurred around 2:30p.m. on Tuesday and began on a packed Blue Line train into Boston. Police say an argument broke out between some men on one of the trains, when one of the men pulled out a gun and shot one of the victims who was standing at the door of the train about to exit.
The argument spilled out onto the platform when a second man was shot. The shooter fled the scene.
Both victims, a 29-year-old man and 43-year-old man, were rushed to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
One of the passengers in the train, Martti Vallila, captured the incident on his cell phone and recalled the moment to WBZ-TV.
"Just at that moment I heard a shot, it was a firecracker or a shot," Vallila said. "Then what I saw was the people in my car recoiling away from the doors.
"I stuck my head out to see what was going on and I could see there was a body near the train," Vallila continued. "The third individual looked at our train, and I couldn't tell if he was going to come into our train, he looked at us and then ran up the stairs."
#Maverick T Stop. Witnesses say try heard gunshots, saw 2 people injured on platform, train stopped, evacuated. #wbz pic.twitter.com/Q3LTLEZ04a
— Christina Hager (@HagerWBZ) January 19, 2016
No arrests have been made.
Shuttle buses replaced Blue Line service between Airport and Bowdoin stations, which led to heavy delays during the afternoon.