MTA bus passenger shot in the neck as bullet rips through windshield, misses driver

A 25-year-old MTA bus passenger was shot and wounded in Brooklyn early Sunday when a bullet zipped through the windshield and struck him in the neck, according to police.The shooting happened shortly before 1:30 a.m.

on Hegemon Avenue near Rockaway Avenue.Video footage from the scene shows a single bullet hole in the windshield near the driver’s seat, with the bus knocked out of service while the NYPD investigates.The unidentified victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.There have been no arrests in the incident, police said.

Last year, three people were injured when a slug smashed through the window of a BX4 bus in the Bronx — a 59-year-old woman who was grazed in the chest and two 67-year-old passengers who were struck by flying glass from the bullet.“As soon as the light changed and I was leaving the bus stop, I heard a gunshot,” bus driver Jose Pabon told The Post after the July 2023 incident. “I thought it was a gunman on my bus, that’s how loud it was.”A similar incident unfolded in the Bronx in 2022, when a 34-year-old gunman opened fire during a nearby road rage incident on East Fordham Road, with two stray shots flying into the bus.

No one was injured in that mishap.In 2021, two MTA bus passengers in Queens were wounded when a gunman opened fire from outside.

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