Police in the Boston area are seeking a man suspected of striking another person with a cinder block during an altercation at an MBTA station, authorities said.
Around 10:30 a.m. Monday, officers from the MBTA’s Transit Police Department responded to Alewife Station in Cambridge, where a man reported that an argument with another man had turned physical.
The victim told police the unknown other man picked up a cinder block and attacked him, striking him several times in the hand as he tried to block the blows, according to police.
The accused attacker was gone by the time police arrived.
Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan told the Boston Globe that officers are searching for a tall white male with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a tan, long-sleeved shirt. The victim was treated at the train station and released, he said.
The incident remains under investigation by Transit Police.
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