Teen fatally shot on SEPTA bus after another fist fight turns into a shooting

teenager riding a SEPTA bus in Germantown was fatally shot Wednesday night after he and an armed passenger got into a fight, police said.

Around 10:45 p.m., a young man wearing a ski mask boarded the 23 bus, heading northwest on Germantown Avenue, near Dennie Street, said SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch. Almost immediately, Busch said, he started arguing with another passenger seated a few rows back.

Video from the bus showed nearby passengers getting up to move seats as the two yelled at each other from their seats, said Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore. Eventually, the confrontation// it escalated into a physical fight, and the masked passenger pulled out a gun and shot the other young man in the chest, Vanore said.

At least two shots were fired, Vanore said, and one bullet burst through the bus driver’s plexiglass partition, into her compartment area.