NEW YORK SHOOTING. The New York police have delivered the last elements after the shooting which injured several people in the subway, Tuesday April 12, 2022. The results and the last elements.
[Mise à jour le 12 avril 2022 à 23h32] The shooting that occurred on Tuesday April 12 in the subway in New York could have claimed many more victims. While the New York Post reports 29 wounded, including 10 by bullets, the newspaper indicates that according to police sources, the assailant’s weapon would have jammed in the middle of the shooting, probably preventing him from causing a real carnage. “It’s lucky she got stuck because otherwise we could have been talking about a lot more people in hospitals or worse,” a law enforcement source said.
Note that contrary to the information initially published by several local media (NB News, NEW Post and NEW Times), no deaths are currently to be deplored. If the state of health of five people is particularly worrying, their vital prognosis is not engaged. The alleged perpetrator of the facts, which took place south of the largest city in the United States, in the district of Brooklyn, has still not been apprehended by the police.
A shooting in New York
The contours of the shooting that occurred are beginning to take shape. It was 8:27 a.m. in New York (2:27 p.m. in France) when the police were called after a person was shot in the subway, in the Brooklyn district. According to a police source reported by the New-York Times, the alleged shooter allegedly set off a smoke bomb inside a metro train, before opening fire in the train. It was then at the “36th Street” station that the passengers panicked off the train. The “36th street” station is a station in the south of the city that is particularly busy because of the five subway lines that stop there, in the Sunset Park district. It is located at the intersection of 4th Avenue and 36th Street.
Is this an attack?
For the time being, the authorities are only talking about a shooting and dismissing the terrorist track, announced Keechant Sewell, police commissioner of New York. In addition, she added that no explosive device had been found on board the car in which the shooting broke out. In New York, shootings regularly take place in the city. the NEW Times recalls that last week, three teenagers were killed in front of a high school or that in 2021, four people had lost their lives and three others had been injured by gunfire in front of a social club. In total, in the first quarter of 2022, the New York police recorded 296 shootings, an increase compared to the same period in 201 (260).
Who is the alleged perpetrator?
The New York police have launched a hunt for the man who has not, for the time being, been apprehended by the authorities. According to the police, the individual was wearing a gas mask and an orange construction vest over a blue outfit, suggesting that he was an employee of the New York City Transit Company. York. He would measure about 1m65 for a corpulence corresponding to a weight of about 80 kg.