Less than a week before four riders and two police officers were attacked with a butcher knife at a Boston bus station, officers had already confronted another group armed with a butcher knife at a different MBTA stop.
Both unusual incidents unfolded in the same week — the first at Andrew Station on March 15, the second at Forest Hills on March 20, according to a Boston police report and the MBTA Transit Police.
The second, widely-reported incident resulted in six people hurt after police officers struggled with the armed man, who was threatening people and trying to stab tires on a bus, then ended with the man struggling with officers and reaching for an officer’s gun. An officer’s gun went off during the struggle, but neither the officer nor suspect was hit…