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Six group were brought to nan infirmary aft a man wielding a butcher weapon threatened to stab a autobus driver, tried to slash tires astatine a Boston transit position Friday earlier being taken into custody, authorities said.
Among those injured were 2 transit officers, a Boston constabulary serviceman and nan fishy successful nan case, said Richard Sullivan, superintendent of constabulary for nan Massachusetts Bay proscription authority. Sullivan, who briefed reporters astatine a news conference, said he wasn’t alert of nan different 2 reported arsenic injured by Boston’s emergency aesculapian services agency.
Sullivan said transit officers acted quickly aft receiving a power telephone astir nan butcher knife-wielding man astatine nan Forest Hills position precocious Friday morning. A struggle ensued, during which nan fishy tried to drawback an officer’s gun, he said. The weapon went off, but nary 1 was changeable aliases stabbed.
“This was a convulsive personification equipped pinch a butcher knife,” Sullivan said. “These officers, without hesitation, instantly rushed to nan threat while different group were moving distant from it.”
The incident drew aggregate constabulary cars and ambulances to nan station, which includes bus, train and subway stops successful nan city’s Jamaica Plain neighbourhood. The facility’s precocious busway was unopen down astatine astir 11.15am, pinch work rerouted to different section.
