A man with a meat cleaver attacked another passenger on a SEPTA bus early Thursday morning, according to Philadelphia police.
Chief Inspector Scott Small said an officer parked near Broad and Callowhill streets in the city’s Spring Garden neighborhood was alerted to the attack by someone who ran off the bus shortly after 1:30 p.m. Small said there were about eight people on the bus when a 45-year-old man pulled out the meat cleaver and struck another passenger in the head and hand.
Police said the two men did not know each other before the attack, and witnesses told investigators that the man with the cleaver was “wandering around incoherently” before striking the victim.
The victim, also a 45-year-old man, was taken to Jefferson University Hospital and is in stable condition, according to police.
Witnesses on the bus were taken to police headquarters and Small said the bus driver also believes the attack was captured by the surveillance camera inside the vehicle.
The man with the cleaver was arrested and the gun was recovered, Small said.
