Man Hit By Stray Bullet While Waiting For Wife At Penn Station

MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN, NY — A 58-year-old man got caught in the middle of a dispute between two other men and was hit with a stray bullet outside of Penn Station during rush hour Monday night, police said.

Police have not identified the victim, who was taken to Belleview Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The incident took place at 5:50 p.m. outside of the New Jersey Transit entrance at Seventh Avenue and West 31st Street, police said.

The suspect had been arguing with another man inside the station when the dispute spilled out onto the street and led to gunfire, police said. Police are still searching for the suspect who they believed fired at least one shot. Police said that the suspect may have been wearing a red backpack at the time of the incident.

The suspect, police said, fled on Seventh Avenue. The victim was shot in the leg, but is expected to survive, according to media reports.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea told reporters at a news conference that the suspect approached the man he was arguing with while he was eating inside of Penn Station, The New York Post reported. The man who was eating told police that he was asked for some food and that he “kind of shunned away and that kind of spills onto the streets here,” Shea told reporters Monday night.

Shea told reporters that the victim was waiting for his wife outside of the station when he was shot.