Tip from the population
“We got him”: Police arrest suspect after shooting in New York subway
After the shooting in a subway station in New York with 23 injured, the alleged perpetrator is still on the run. As the police announced at a press conference, he had already been identified, but is still at large. Police released photos of the suspected shooter. The murder weapon and three other ammunition magazines, an ax, fireworks and a petrol can were seized. The investigators also found a van that had apparently been previously rented by the perpetrator. Police Chief Keechant Sewell said the incident would not be classified as an act of terrorism without knowing the motive for the attack. The incident happened Tuesday as a subway train pulled into the station. According to the police, the alleged perpetrator first detonated two smoke bombs and then fired 33 shots from a semi-automatic weapon. According to the police, ten people were directly hit by the shots. Thirteen other people suffered smoke inhalation or were otherwise injured as panicked passengers fled the smoke-filled subway car.
Arrested after gun attack on New York subway. According to US media reports, the suspect, who was being searched for at high pressure, has been arrested by the police.
Police have arrested a suspect after the shooting incident that left at least 23 people injured on the New York subway. The man was arrested in New York on Wednesday, the authorities said at a press conference. “We have him,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The 62-year-old man had previously been searched for hours.
Apparently, the man was caught after a tip from the public. Someone called a hotline and said the suspect was at a fast food restaurant in the East Village in southeast Manhattan, authorities said at a news conference on Wednesday. Police officers stationed in the area then searched the area and arrested the suspect at the corner of First Avenue and St. Marks Place, a popular East Village nightlife street. The 62-year-old did not resist.
Charged with “terrorist and violent attacks”
He is now to be charged with “terrorist and other violent attacks” on local public transport. If convicted, the 62-year-old faces a life sentence, authorities said. The suspect, who was born in New York and had last given residence in Philadelphia and Wisconsin, is known to the police – he has already been arrested nine times in different US states, it said at the press conference.
In the incident, according to initial findings, a man opened fire on Tuesday morning during rush hour in a subway in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The man was sitting in a back corner in the second car of an N train bound for Manhattan between the 59 St and 36 St stations. He wore an orange-green construction worker vest, a corona protective mask, a gray hooded sweater and a neon-green construction worker helmet. He then put on a kind of gas mask, opened two canisters from which smoke or fog streamed, and then opened fire. According to the police, he shot a total of 33 times.
Numerous weapons found at the scene
At least 23 people were injured – ten by gunfire, 13 in the panic that broke out afterwards or from smoke inhalation. None of them were in mortal danger.
The man was initially able to flee – how he managed to do this and his motive were initially unclear, according to the police. The incident was initially not investigated as an act of terrorism. Among other things, a semi-automatic handgun, several magazines and a small ax were found at the crime scene. A liquid suspected to be gasoline and a bag of fireworks were also found.