MTA bus driver shot while walking to work in Brooklyn
Jan 23, 2026
An MTA bus driver was shot in the shoulder as he was walking to work in Brooklyn Friday, according to law enforcement sources.
The victim, a 42-year-old man, was heading to work when he was struck outside a Lafayette Ave. supermarket near Marcus Garvey Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 2 p.m., sour
ces said.
A grocer who was working in the store spotted the gunman dashing by with a weapon in his hand.
“The guy was running behind me, and he passed with a gun in his hand,“ the market employee said. “He was shooting at a guy on the corner. He shot three or four times.”
“Broad daylight,” he added. “Crazy.”
Medics rushed the bus driver to Woodhull Hospital with a graze wound to his left shoulder, cops said. ...read more read less