{"id":110965,"date":"2026-01-24T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:48:10","slug":"mta-bus-driver-walking-to-work-grazed-by-bullet-on-nyc-street-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110965\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA bus driver walking to work grazed by bullet on NYC street: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An MTA bus driver walking to work was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Friday afternoon, according to cops and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 42-year-old man was clipped in the left shoulder when gunfire rang out near Marcus Garvey Blvd and Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 2 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The shooting took place in Brooklyn. Google Maps\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"615\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1b1984e91a7d7e53577859faccc79796.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place in Brooklyn. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers reached the scene, the MTA worker was alert and conscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to Woodhull Hospital in stable condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s unclear if he was the intended target, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He told investigators he was walking to his job as a bus driver when the bullet grazed him, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NYPD did not yet have a description of the shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA bus driver walking to work was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Friday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14675,35341,49755,1604,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-110965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bus-driver","tag-law-enforcement-sources","tag-marcus-garvey","tag-mta-bus","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}