This image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a Crime Stoppers bulletin showing photographs of Frank R. James. Police linked a key found at the scene to a U-Haul truck rented by James.
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This image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a Crime Stoppers bulletin showing photographs of Frank R. James. Police linked a key found at the scene to a U-Haul truck rented by James.
NYPD via AP
Law enforcement officials arrested Frank R. James, the man on suspicion of Tuesday’s conduct. New York City subway attack resulted in 10 people being shot, the New York Police Department said Wednesday.
“My fellow New Yorkers, we got him. We got him,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a video stream from Gracie Mansion.
US Attorney Breon Peace said James was charged in federal court in Brooklyn with one count of violating a law banning terrorism and other violent attacks on public transit systems. If convicted, James could face life in prison, Peace said.
A tip from the public led the police to come see James
Police said they received a tip that James was in a McDonald’s at 6th Street and 1st Avenue in the East Village in Manhattan.
The responders didn’t find him in the fast food restaurant, but as they were walking through the neighborhood, they noticed James on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and 1st Avenue, where they caught him without incident.
“We were able to shrink his world quickly. There was nowhere left for him to run,” said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. “He will be charged with a horrific crime yesterday in Brooklyn.”
Police say James bought the gun legally in 2011
Authorities said James purchased the Glock 9mm pistol he used in the shooting from a federally licensed gun dealer in Ohio in 2011. They added that he would not be able to purchase the gun. this gun if he has any felony convictions.
James had nine previous arrests in New York between 1992 and 1998 on charges including possession of stolen tools, theft of services and a criminal sex act, police said. know. He was also arrested three times in New Jersey.
Police have said earlier that they believe it is James, 62, who Shooting inside a subway car on line N at the 36th Street Subway Station in Brooklyn.
James has gone from being a person of interest to being a suspect
Authorities previously described James as merely a person of interest, but Mayor Eric Adams said on WNYC on Wednesday morning that James had been upgraded to a suspect based on “new information” [that] available. “Adams didn’t specify what the new information was.
Investigators found a key U-Haul at the scene of the shooting and found it in a van they believe James had rented in Philadelphia. James has an address in Philadelphia and Wisconsin, police said.
Video from social media shows chaos erupting on the platform during Tuesday’s rush hour attack, shortly before 8:30 a.m.
Police said the shooter deployed two smoke grenades before launching at least 33 rounds inside the train.
Authorities said 10 people were shot and 13 others suffered injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to falls and panic attacks.
