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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Authorities have arrested a man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Frank R. James was taken into custody Wednesday in Manhattan’s East Village.
Investigators had announced Tuesday afternoon that they were searching for James, who was believed to have rented a van possibly connected to the violence. By Wednesday morning, New York authorities said he was a suspect in the shooting itself. Authorities were examining social media videos in which the 62-year-old decried the United States as a racist place awash in violence and railed against New York City’s mayor.
NEW YORK (AP) – At least 10 people were shot and eight others injured when a gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and opened fire Tuesday morning.
Police were still searching for the shooter.
There were no life-threatening injuries and the attack was not being investigated as terrorism.
Officials said at least 16 in all were injured in some way in the attack at the 36th Street station in the borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood.
According to multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, preliminary information indicated that the gunman who fled was wearing a construction vest and a gas mask.
Original story:
NEW YORK (AP) – Multiple people were shot Tuesday morning at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, the city fire department said.
Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park found multiple people shot. A photo from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor station. Further details were not immediately available.
New York City police said they were responding to reports of people wounded either by gunfire or an explosion. Trains servicing that station were delayed during the morning commute.
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