Meter Attendant

The Cambridge parking meter attendant shot and wounded last week remains in critical stable condition but police still haven't figured out who attacked him--or why.

Thomas Litwinsky, 33 years old, of 31 Winter't Cambridge, was shot in the back last Thursday night while ticketing cars along Shepard St. two blocks from the Quad. He was rested unconscious to Cambridge City Hospital by two passersby, and after an operation early Friday morning that removed a bullet that had lodged near his hart, his condition is stable.

"We don't have any ideas. We don't know who it was" that shot Litwinsky, a detective sergeant said. "There are just so many possibilities."

"I've spoken to him a couple of times, and he sounds all right," the sergeant added.

Another officer said that Litwinsky had recently passed the requisite tests to join the police force, and that if he recovers, he will become a Cambridge Police officer.