A 16-year-old boy was taken into custody after he allegedly stabbed a man Wednesday on the MBTA Green Line, officials said.
Around 12:40 p.m. at the Harvard Avenue stop on Commonwealth Avenue, the boy and the 32-year-old man had a verbal altercation that turned physical, and the boy stabbed the man in the torso, the MBTA Transit Police said. The youth was placed into custody and the man was taken to the hospital for treatment of his injury, which officials said was not life-threatening.
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