MBTA Transit Police report a 20-year-old man was shot around 8 p.m. on Tuesday at Ashmont station.

Officers on patrol at the station heard "a series of gunshots," police say. One bullet wound up lodged in a car whose driver happened to be passing by the station at the time.

Anybody with information on the shooting can contact Transit Police detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text tip to 873873.