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A passenger waiting for the subway claimed that he saw "calamity" when the subway door opened due to the smoke, blood, and screaming.

When the train stopped at 36th Street, the wounded passengers disembarked at the platform, and police were called to the station at 8:30 a.m. He fired at least 33 shots and fled the scene after the attack. After the train left the 59th Street station on the Fourth Avenue Line, the attacker put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades onto the floor of a train car, and opened fire with a Glock 17 9 mm handgun as the train approached the 36th Street station.

Īt 8:24 a.m., multiple people were shot on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. EDT on April 12, 2022, video surveillance captured footage of a man matching James' description, who left a U-Haul van two blocks from a train station on the same subway line where the attack took place. Some victims disembarked at the 36th Street station after the attack.Īt 6:15 a.m. Before the April 2022 shooting, there had been several high-profile incidents of violence in the subway, including the killing of Michelle Go in January and several stabbing cases. According to police statistics, crime in the subway increased 68% by April 2022 compared to the same time in 2021. Reports of assaults and other major felonies occurring on the subway system increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, when the number was adjusted for weekday ridership numbers. On January 3, 2023, James pled guilty to federal terrorism charges. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York with committing a terrorist act on a mass transit system and discharging a firearm during the commission of a Crime of Violence, to which James pleaded not guilty. On the day after the attack, Frank James was arrested as the suspect after a large manhunt. Most passengers disembarked at 36th Street, where some passengers fled onto an R train that traveled one additional stop to 25th Street. The shooting occurred as the train was traveling between the 59th Street and 36th Street stations.Īlthough no one died, 29 people were injured ten victims were hit by direct gunfire, while the remaining injuries were from smoke inhalation. EDT, a man reported to be 62-year-old Black nationalist Frank Robert James put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times. On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. 29 (10 by gunfire, 19 by other causes) Ĭommitting a terrorist attack on a mass transportation systemĭischarge of firearm during the commission of a crime of violence