MTA employee shoots straphanger during heated subway argument, police say

A MTA collection agent shot a man in a Brooklyn subway station amid a heated argument on Tuesday night, police sources said.

The employee, whose tasks include transporting and delivering cash and MetroCards, was riding a Brooklyn-bound R train near the Atlantic Ave.–Barclays Center station with a colleague after stocking a machine when they got into a dispute with a man around 9 p.m., cops and sources said.

Police investigate a shooting at the Union Street subway station on the R line at 4th Avenue and Union Street in Brooklyn, New York City on Tuesday, December 20, 2022.

The disagreement escalated as the train rolled into the Union St. Station in Park Slope, police said.

As the situation spiraled out of control while the trio exited the train, the MTA collection agent pulled out a gun and shot the man once in the chest, sources said.

He was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition.

The MTA employees were not carrying cash and it is not believed the man’s motivation was to rob them, the sources added.

Police were working with the MTA employees — who sometimes carry guns while working — to determine what unfolded before the incident, cops and the MTA said.

They were not immediately facing charges.

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