At least 29 people have been injured – ten of them by bullet wounds – this Tuesday as a result of a shooting that occurred in the subway New York, specifically in the Brooklyn neighborhood, according to the city’s Fire Department (FDNY). Five of the injured are in critical condition.
Police recovered a Glock pistol and several high-capacity chargers in the New York subway station where ten people were shot on Tuesday by a man who has not been arrested so far, local media reported.
“We have an active shooter situation right now in New York City,” State Governor Kathy Hochul explained at a press conference from the scene. Security forces are looking for a black man who was wearing a gas mask, a green reflective vest and a gray hoodie at the time of the attack.
New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell also participated in the press conference, explaining that What happened is not being investigated as a terrorist attack. In addition, when asked if the attacker had any type of people as a target, he replied that “the victims are ethnically diverse.”
Firefighters and police went to the 36th Street subway station in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Tuesday around 8:30 a.m. local time, after a call alerting to the presence of smoke. Upon arriving at the scene, they found several people with gunshot wounds and several unexploded devices, also supposedly smoke bombs.
Apparently the assailant opened fire with a Glock pistol, but the weapon jammed, thus preventing further personal injury, according to police sources cited by the tabloid newspaper ‘The New York Post’.
The CNN chain, citing two police sources, reported that the investigators also recovered fireworks and gunpowder from the scene, with which the aggressor supposedly created a smoke screen.
Officers have found the pistol and two expanded magazines at the scene of the shooting. “It was lucky that it got jammed because if we weren’t we would be talking about many more people in hospitals and more serious. Dozens of other people would have been injured or more seriously injured, “said the source.
A video released by the New York press shows how the doors of one of the trains open and passengers begin to get out amid smoke coming from inside. Moments later at least three people come out limping and one of them lies on the platform floor after leaving behind a trail of blood while the rest of the passersby leave or record the injured person with their mobile phones.
Another video shows how passengers crowd into one end of the car after hearing the shots. The station has correspondence with up to three lines of the New York subway: D, N and R.
The area of the metro station has already been cordoned off by the security forces and there are dozens of police vehicles in the four adjoining blocks. In addition, the metro service has been suspended on several lines, which has caused an increase in the rates of services such as Uber or Lyft, taking advantage of the lack of public transport.
The US president, Joe Biden, is being informed of everything that is happening, according to the authorities. The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who is in isolation for coronavirus after testing positive this Sunday, also receives the information.
Precisely Adams addressed the population in a video published on social networks in which he assures that “we are not going to allow a single individual to terrorize New Yorkers.” The suspect “has detonated smoke bombs to cause chaos”, he recalled, while describing it as a “miracle” that there have been no deaths.
The mayor highlighted the quick reaction of other passengers who quickly treated the injured and thus prevented deaths.
In addition, he thanked the response of the emergency services. “You are the ones who make New York the best city in the world. Thank you for your support of your fellow New Yorkers”, she pointed out.