Teens push man into moving Orange Line train

MBTA Transit Police said they are investigating an assault after a group of teenagers attacked a man on the platform of Back Bay Station in Boston and pushed him into a moving train.

The incident happened around 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Transit Police. The 27-year-old had a laceration to his head. The group involved ran off in different directions.

Back Bay Station attack

WBZ-TV spoke with a local nurse who was at the top of the stairs in the station as the teens started to run off. She said she saw the man laying on his back on the platform, bleeding from his head and knew she needed to step in.

“My first immediate reaction was to help him because I think he was in shock. He was just laying there,” said the nurse, who did not want to give her name due to privacy concerns. “The transit cop was applying pressure to the laceration on his forehead. It was a decent amount of blood, but he was alert, oriented. I was just keeping him verbally engaged.”…

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