Police Are Investigating a Shooting that Closed MBTA Aquarium Station
No one was injured after an incident involving "several juvenile males" on the Blue Line, TPD says.
A Blue Line Train At Aquarium Station By ericodeg via Flickr Creative Commons
Police are continuing to investigate a shooting that closed the Aquarium MBTA stop for several hours Sunday night.
No one was injured Sunday when shots were fired at the Blue Line stop at around 9:50 p.m., the MBTA Transit Police say in a report on the department’s website.
“A preliminary investigation suggest[s] there was an unknown disturbance onboard an inbound Blue Line train involving several juvenile males,” police write. “The disturbance continued onto the platform at Aquarium station. At some point as the juvenile males were proceeding out of the station at least two shots were fired from an unknown calibre handgun.”
UPDATE: Aquarium Station https://t.co/72iZr7ajsk
— MBTA Transit Police (@MBTATransitPD) June 24, 2019
The MBTA announced around 10:15 p.m. that Blue Line trains would bypass the station while an investigation was underway. It later said in a tweet that the stop would re-open for the morning commute.
In a statement, TPD Superintendent Richard Sullivan said “all available resources will be deployed to identify, locate and apprehend the person/s responsible for such reckless and criminal conduct.”
BL TRAINS operate to/from Gov’t Center and Wonderland.
Trains BYPASS Aquarium as a police investigation is on-going.
No service to Bowdoin.
— MBTA (@MBTA) June 24, 2019
#MBTA #BlueLine Update: Regularly scheduled service will resume at the start of service this morning.
— MBTA (@MBTA) June 24, 2019
