The attacker was on the train approaching the station on 36th Street when he put on a gas mask and took a can from his backpack, which he then opened. Immediately, everything began to fill with smoke and this black man wearing a green construction vest and a gray hooded sweatshirt started shooting, injuring people both on the train and on the platform, according to what the authorities reported during the press conference from the area of the events.
“Currently there are no explosive devices in our subway stations and this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism at this time.”reported Keechant Sewell, of the New York Police Department, who spoke of a “violent incident” and said they still don’t know “the reason”.
For her part, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, asked the population to be “vigilant and alert” since the attacker is still at large.
The authorities informed during a press conference that they are 16 wounded because of the New York subway shooting. Ten of them were shot and five are “critical, but stable.”
The number of wounded rose from 13 to 16according to what a New York Fire Department spokesman confirmed to CNN. The same figure was reported on the American chain ABC.
Of the people injured as a result of the shooting at the 36th Street subway station, eight were directly shot and another eight are injured.
Danny Mastrogiorgioa Brooklyn resident, had dropped his son off at school when he saw a crowd rushing out of the subway stairsat least two of them injured in the legs. “It was crazy Mastrogiorgio told the AP- Agency. No one knew what was happening.”
For its part, Allan Lee He was in his business, the Café Nube, when half a dozen police patrols coincided in the street. “They began to evacuate people on this block and on the next block, and closed access to the subway,” he remembered regarding what happened near the entrance of his premises. He knew that it was something serious when he saw that they arrived at the place anti-explosive agents and trained dogs.
After the violent shooting that left -for the moment- 13 people hospitalized in Brooklyn, Police are looking for a man wearing an orange builder’s vest and gas mask as the alleged responsible for the violent scene recorded this Tuesday, which still remains fugitive.
according to the chain ABCit is assumed that this person might have launched “multiple smoke devices” to distract people at rush hour, because visibility was “obviously” reduced on that platform.
Now the researchers they review the security cameras and also focus on the testimony of witnesses.
The Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is aware of the Brooklyn subway shooting and his press secretary, Fabien Levyasked citizens to stay away from the area where the shooting occurred – at the 36th Street station – for “your safety” and so that the rescuers can continue with their tasks.
In the official account of the New York City subway they reported the suspension of some services. First they claimed “presence of smoke” at the 36th Street station and following the shooting was reported, users were informed that a “police investigation”.
All schools near the Brooklyn area where the violent shooting took place have a shelter-in-place order which means that no one is allowed to leave the building and that only students are eligible to enter schools, explained a spokesman for the Department of Education to CNN. The spokesman did not clarify how many institutions are affected by the measure but, for that reason, they recommended to the relatives not to go and remove the children from the establishments despite what happened.
Police officials had warned that shootings in New York City had increased during the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year -even when homicides decreased- as a continuation of the resurgence of violence during the pandemic, as reported by The New York Times.
the shootings increased from 260 to 296 in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from the Police Department cited by that medium, which include the first three days of April.
The White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, reported on Twitter that President Joe Biden was briefed on the New York shooting. “Senior White House staff are in contact with Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Sewell to offer whatever help is needed,” he said.
The New York Police confirmed shortly following the shooting that no active explosives were found in the affected subway station, according to what was published by the agency. Archyde.com.
At least 13 people were injured in a shooting in a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, the city fire department said. A photo from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the station floor.
Preliminary reports indicated that five people were shot, according to an official quoted by The New York Times. The police were looking for a man in a gas mask and an orange construction vest, said.
Minutes following the attack was reported this morning in the Brooklyn, New York subway, videos began to circulate on social networks of the moment shots were heard at the 36th Street station, where the D, N and R pass through the neighborhood of Sunset Park.
