While the suspect was already on the train after having entered at another location, the surveillance footage could have caught him leaving after the attack. Their investigation was hampered by what Mayor Adams called a “malfunction” with the subway station’s cameras, which weren’t working on the platform or the turnstiles at the time of the incident, law-enforcement sources said. Police officers walk near the scene of a shooting at a subway station in Brooklyn. He hobbled on.”Ĭops initially believed the suspect blended in with other commuters and boarded the R train before getting off at the next stop on 25th street and fleeing but police are still investigating exactly how he escaped. Everyone got on, including a guy who got shot. “They just started yelling,” said Gaba Semein, 16, who was at the 36th Street station en route to class when the mayhem unfolded, referring to people around him. Graphic photos on social media showed the injured lying on bloodstained subway platform floors.Īs the mayhem unfolded, straphangers were evacuated to the R train across the platform, where some got off at the next stop and others were rushed to hospitals. angry_yeti/Instagram Straphangers flee on the platform. AP One witness described the suspect as wearing an orange vest and a gas mask. A person tends to an injured straphanger. “Dozens more people would have been wounded or more seriously injured.’’ Chaosįootage taken from the chaotic scene showed screaming passengers spilling out onto the platform as soon as the train doors opened and clouds of smoke billowing out. angry_yeti/Instagram A person tends to an injured straphanger. Derek French/Shutterstock The incident unfolded around 8:30 a.m. The attack happened on a Manhattan-bound N train. “It was lucky that it jammed because we could be talking about a lot more people in hospitals or worse,’’ a law-enforcement source said. The gun’s malfunction was a fluke that law-enforcement sources likened to a miracle. One of the magazines was found in a backpack, the other on a seat and the third in the weapon. The gun used by the shooter, who had three extended magazines on him, jammed in the midst of the bloodshed. He said he’d been treated for mental-health issues at a facility with “violence,’’ not “physical but the kind of violence a child experiences in grade school … that would make him go get a gun and shooting motherf–kers.”Ī straphanger named Claire who witnessed the shooting said of the gunman, “I thought he was an MTA worker at first,” adding so many rounds were fired, she “lost count.” James had previously railed against Mayor Eric Adams and made bizarre threatening rants on YouTube. Police later identified Frank James, 62, as a “person of interest” in the shooting but have not yet determined if he was the triggerman. Of the ten victims hit by gunfire, five were listed in critical but stable condition, while others suffered from smoke inhalation and other related injuries. Armen Armenian/Facebook The suspect is believed to have dressed in construction garb. At least 29 people were injured, including 10 who were shot, in the gruesome incident. Those hurt included two teens ages 15 and 19, a pregnant woman who was shot in the leg, seven men and three women, law-enforcement sources said.
“Oops, my bad,” the suspect mumbled, according to witness Fitim Gjeloshi, after opening the canister and then pulling out an ax and dropping it to the floor.Īs the crowded subway car filled with smoke, the shooter took out a 9mm semiautomatic Glock and fired 33 rounds at commuters, hitting 10 victims and leaving at least 19 others wounded. The gunman suddenly put on a gas mask and released two smoke grenades as the car pulled into the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, cops said. The shooter - who has yet to be apprehended - was wearing a neon orange and green construction vest and a neon green helmet and muttering to himself on a Manhattan-bound N train when he unleashed bloody havoc just before 8:30 a.m. ‘Not an invitation’: Judge angered after accused NYC subway shooter skips courtĪccused NYC subway mass shooter whines about media coverage, says he’s ‘not too good’ in jailĪfter mass shooting, NYC explores gun detectors in subwaysĮric Adams makes plea for pro-police messaging, challenging ‘defund’ movementĪ madman disguised as a construction worker turned a Brooklyn subway car into a bloodbath during the early-morning rush Tuesday, setting off smoke bombs before opening fire and wounding 29, officials said.
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