Gunman dressed as a construction worker and wore a gas mask as a disguise.
QUICK FACTS:
- A gunman opened fire in a Brooklyn area subway on Tuesday morning around 8:24 am, according to The Associated Press.
- Ten people were shot and at least 6 more we injured, with some reports indicating as many as 29 injured.
- Authorities reported that the alleged perpetrator set off a smoke canister on a rush-hour subway and shot at least 10 people in the mayhem.
- The attack took place on a subway train that pulled into the 36th Street station in the borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood.
- As of 2:30 EDT, a manhunt is still underway for the shooter, according to Fox News.
- Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell addressed reporters at a news conference, saying the attack was not being investigated as terrorism but that they had also “not ruling out anything.”
MORE ATTACK ATTACK:
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Janno Lieber said that while the attack disrupted the system, it is nevertheless still running.
- “I just want to say one thing on a personal note, which is on 9/11, I stood on Fourth Avenue and watched people, New Yorkers come back from that tragedy,” Lieber said. “And I watched New Yorkers help each other and storekeepers walked out and give people water. That was the same thing we saw in the platform today. We saw New Yorkers in a difficult situation, an emergency helping each other.”
- Eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station 1010 WINS, “My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” the witness said before going on to describe a giant billow of smoke pouring out of the N train once the door opened.
BACKGROUND:
- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned New Yorkers to be vigilant as they look for the perpetrator.
- “This individual is still on the loose. This person is dangerous,” the Democrat said at a news conference. “This is an active shooter situation right now in the city of New York.”
