The alleged perpetrator of Wednesday’s shooting at a New York subway station, identified as Frank James, was arrested shortly after noon on Wednesday, according to police sources cited by CNN and other media.
According to the chain, this 63-year-old black man was arrested in the East Village sector, south of Manhattan, by two agents, after a passer-by noticed him on the street, photographed him and posted the image on Twitter, although the police have not yet revealed the details.
The newspaper New York Post He even published images of the moment of the arrest, in which the man is seen being put into a police vehicle without offering any resistance.
Police offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who helped arrest James, who had been on the run for more than 24 hours. Although the image of him was spread by all media since Tuesday afternoon.
James is accused of being the sole perpetrator of the shooting that left 10 people gunshot wounds in addition to several intoxicated in a New York subway car, which he entered throwing 2 canisters of smoke before starting to shoot, apparently indiscriminately.
Gunshot wounds and intoxicated
Ten people were left with gunshot wounds and several more intoxicated or bruised.
Apparently, and according to the media on Wednesday, James has some kind of mental illness for which he was admitted to specialized medical centers, an experience that he later described as “terrifying.”
He was also the owner of a YouTube account in which he posted a profuse number of messages of violent content. In them he mixed racial resentment, conspiracy theories and a fixation on Mayor Eric Adams, which explains why on Tuesday the police reinforced the security of the official, currently confined to his home for contracting the covid-19 virus.