James had rented, along with a Glock 9-millimeter handgun, three ammunition magazines, a hatchet, fireworks and a liquid believed to be gasoline. James’s name on it had been found at the scene of the shooting, as had a key to a van that Mr. Two law enforcement officials said that a credit card with Mr. James had addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, the police said. Subway seats and cars were streaked with blood as people called for help.įrank R. As the shooting unfolded and the doors of the train opened, sending smoke billowing through 36th Street station, fearful riders fled, many of them hurrying onto an R train sitting across the platform. The N train snakes through working-class neighborhoods filled with immigrants from all over Asia and Latin America. Mayor Eric Adams said that the search for the gunman was hampered by the fact that at least one security camera at the 36th Street subway station that might have captured the scene was not operating. It set off panic and chaos aboard the train, in the station and the surrounding streets and sent schools in the vicinity into lockdowns that lasted much of the day.
The shooting came as the city was already struggling to cope with both a rise in shootings citywide and an increase in crime and disorder in the subway that has scared commuters from returning to a transit system that saw ridership plummet during the pandemic. Shortly before 8:30 a.m., the police said, a heavyset, dark-skinned man in a construction vest and construction helmet donned a gas mask as a crowded N train approached the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighborhood, tossed two smoke grenades on the floor of the car, and began firing the gun.
He blamed Black women for violence among Black people and pointed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as evidence that whites are genocidal. He appeared to have posted dozens of videos on YouTube, where he riffed off news events in long, vitriolic rants. James has addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin, the police said. “We are endeavoring to locate him to determine his connection to the subway shooting, if any,” Chief Essig said. James remains at large, James Essig, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, said in a news conference at police headquarters. The police found the van abandoned on a street late Tuesday afternoon, about five blocks from the Kings Highway station, where they say the gunman had gotten on the subway, and five miles from the 36th Street station, where the shooting unfolded. A key to the van, they said, was found in a collection of belongings on the train that they believed belonged to the gunman, including a Glock 9-millimeter handgun, three ammunition magazines, a hatchet, fireworks and a liquid believed to be gasoline. James, 62, had rented a U-Haul van in Philadelphia, the police said. The police in New York on Tuesday evening identified a man they called a “person of interest” in the mass shooting on a crowded subway train in Brooklyn during the morning rush earlier that day that injured nearly two dozen people, five of them critically. The U-Haul van that the police say the shooter used.
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