Police: Man Shot On Metro Transit Bus In North Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police are looking for the man who opened fire on a Metro Transit bus in North Minneapolis.
Officers say the man boarded the bus, shot one of the passengers and then took off.
The shooting occurred just after 11 a.m. on a southbound route 19 bus near 17th Avenue and Penn Avenue North.
According to police, a man boarded the bus, got into a verbal altercation with a male passenger and then shot the passenger.
Police said the suspect fled the scene. Officers are currently looking for him.
Several people gave their accounts to WCCO moments after the shooting.
One was an 11-year-old boy named Titan. He was on his way to play in a football game, dressed in his uniform. He described what he saw unfold between the men involved.
"He attacked him, started punching him, and the dude that was sitting--he had him in a headlock," Titan said. "Then the dude said, 'I'm gonna shoot you' or 'kill you,' something like that, and then that's when I ran off the bus."
Priscilla Harris was on the downtown bound too, on her way to work when the route got interrupted.
"Next thing you know, you just heard something go 'boom' and that was it, everybody just started getting off the bus," she said. "I was looking at this man just laying on the bus, just bleeding."
She said the situation rattled her deeply.
"I'm kind of shaking right now, you can see me shaking right now."
The victim was taken to North Memorial Hospital. His condition is unknown.
Metro Transit and Minneapolis Police worked the scene together.
A cop car collision
The bus shooting spawned another dangerous situation, just four blocks away.
A Metro Transit squad car, on the way to the bus shooting, collided with an SUV at Penn and Plymouth.
A Metro Transit spokesperson said he didn't know the condition of the person in the other vehicle, but the officer is all right.
