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Man set off smoke bombs and sprayed fellow passengers with gunfire during commuter rush.

New York City has seen a sharp rise in violent crime during the pandemic, including a string of seemingly random attacks on its subways. The gunman removed two canisters from his bag and opened them, sending smoke throughout the train car. Police said they recovered the key to the van at the crime scene, and that Mr James had addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin. Attempts by Reuters to reach any of the phone numbers associated with James were unsuccessful.

Mayor Eric Adams issues a subway safety plan in February, and placed a strong emphasis on moving unhoused people from subway stations into housing.

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The city's police department said there are no active explosives at this time and urged members of the public to stay away from the area.

"My subway door opened into calamity. At least 13 people have been injured and have been taken to hospital, according to the New York City Fire Department. New York subway shooting: Five people shot in Brooklyn with at least 13 injured and taken to hospital, city's fire department says

Thirteen people injured and 'several undetonated devices' were found as police search for suspect who fled scene, authorities say.

Officers were searching for the suspect, the police spokesperson said. I just hope they find the person.” The not knowing what’s going on – it’s crazy, it’s concerning,” he said. “That this could happen literally just a few feet from where you live it’s crazy. Perez was standing outside his building with neighbors. Police later said none were “active explosive devices”.

Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park area found multiple people with gunshot wounds and undetonated devices, a New York City Fire Department spokesperson said. The fire department said 13 people ...

The shootings come as New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. Police officers were canvassing 4th Avenue, the station’s cross-street, asking witnesses whether they were on the train. Inside a subway carriage, one person could be seen lying on the floor, encircled by others.

Crews responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park area found multiple people with gunshot wounds and undetonated devices.

Inside a subway carriage, one person could be seen lying on the floor, encircled by others. Police officers were canvassing 4th Avenue, the station’s cross-street, asking witnesses whether they were on the train. A photo from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station. Photos and video from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke. Get out of the way!” Photos and video from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke.

At least 13 people have been injured in a shooting during morning rush hour at a New York subway station. Shots were fired at the 36th Street station in ...

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Are you in the area? There is a "huge" number of police and emergency responders attending, reports the BBC's New York bureau chief John Mervin who is at the scene. The woman said she saw the suspect dropping "some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top" - initially believing him to be a subway worker because of the orange vest that she said he was wearing. "My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming," eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.

Five in critical condition after suspect filled train with gas and then opened fire.

Inside a subway carriage, one person could be seen lying on the floor, encircled by others. Photograph: Andrew Hinderaker/The New York Times He said a preliminary investigation was under way but authorities did not have a positive identification of the suspect. Photograph: Andrew Hinderaker/The New York Times Photograph: Andrew Hinderaker/The New York Times Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) @NYPDTipsat 1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/vSYb5UIu2k April 12, 2022

The attack on Tuesday brought to life a horror that the city had long avoided: a mass shooting on the subway.

Ensuring a safe subway system has been part of a strategy to lure people back to offices, and tourists back to the city. Video captured by riders and people on the platform showed the familiar space of a subway car transformed into a trap. Nayah Martin, 22, who uses the 36th Street station to get to her job at a surgery center nearby, was planning on taking an Uber. “It spooked me,” Ms. Martin said. “I’m not trying to stay on the subway.” Ridership had begun to tick up: For the third week of March — the most recent for which statistics are available — the subway averaged about 3.2 million riders per weekday, about 58 percent of the prepandemic average. “In a mass shooting, there is a lot of attention focused on people who are killed or who are injured, and rightfully so,” she said. Subway ridership has been hobbled by the shift to remote work. Mayor Eric Adams had vowed to crack down on subway violence, and the shooting came amid what was already an increased police presence. And in an instant, it turned the subway — New York City’s quotidian icon — into a bloody scene of horror. “There is a heightened sense of insecurity that results from these type of attacks, because it is easy for us to relate to them, because we can see ourselves in them.” In 2021, rates of violent crime in the subway per million weekday passengers spiked almost across the board compared with 2019, before the pandemic. Their subway, once the target of mundane gripes over tardiness and trash, had become the latest symbol of a city frayed by violence.

Investigators are searching for 62-year-old Frank James, although they have not confirmed how he might have been involved in the rush-hour attack.

“We cannot stop until the peace we deserve becomes the reality we experience.” “We cannot clean up a flood when water is still pouring into the basement. "We cannot stop until the peace we deserve becomes the reality we experience." In some places, they talk about taking the gun out of politics but America hasn’t found a way to take politics out of the gun. "And people were trying to get in and they couldn't, they were pounding on the door to get into our car." "There was a lot of loud pops, and there was smoke in the other car," she said.

In a series of rambling videos on YouTube, Frank R James heavily criticises New York City Mayor Eric Adams, claiming he will not be able to tackle crime ...

He alleges that Mr Adams cannot tackle crime effectively on the subway. Mr James also references his "life of crime back in the 90s" when he was "on welfare". There are also said to be ties to New York. A 57-year-old homeless suspect was later arrested. Mr James then references a series of people he says were "supposed to be helping me" but who, he alleges, "made me worse". A man previously described as a "person of interest" in subway shootings in New York is now said by police to be a "suspect".

The lack of security camera footage from the 36th Street subway station has become a significant obstacle in efforts to detain the gunman in Tuesday's ...

She credited the decrease in the homicide rates to a surge of arrests. He heard someone calling for a doctor and followed that person to the front of the train. As it left the station, she looked again at the N. The doors were open, and she could see a spilled soda, and what she thought in retrospect might have been a person on the floor. Mr. Benkada told CNN that he boarded the last car of the N train and sat next to a man with a duffel bag who was wearing an M.T.A. vest. He took a video in the immediate aftermath of the deafening gunfire. The police have not said whether they believe that Mr. James was the gunman, and did not call him a suspect. Mr. Adams said he would “continue to do everything in my power to dam the rivers that feed the sea of violence.” Mr. Adams has made a point of riding the trains, and has joined police patrols at night. In March, the suspect in a series of shootings that killed two homeless men in New York and Washington was arrested three days after his last known attack. The police named Mr. James a person of interest in the shooting. Police have identified a person of interest and said the reward could go to those who help find him. 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.

People like working in their pajamas. But when employees don't return to office, the city economy feels the pain.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the ball over the playground fence. Adams has so far proposed creating a joint city and state panel to study the future of work and its implications for the city. “The level of Holocaust denial right now is staggering. More about the asterisk in a moment. The story surfaced a decade ago, when Margot Wölk, then 95, was quoted as saying she had been a taster at Hitler’s bunker in occupied Poland. The title is what it is. The evening will be partly cloudy, with temps dropping to the low 50s. And the state has yet to move toward relaxing zoning regulations that hamper the conversion of office buildings to residential housing, including low-income units. Manhattan office buildings underwrote more than a quarter of the city’s property tax revenues before the pandemic, according to the state comptroller’s office. Even so, policymakers have barely begun to address what that could mean for schools, parks and the police, all of which depend on tax revenues. And Penguin Random House, the publishing house with roughly 2,500 employees in the New York City area, has no mandatory return-to-office plans at all. And, a playwright who decided not to change the name of her play.

New York City police are hunting for a suspect who filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke before shooting several people. Officials said the gunfire wounded ...

New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. In other video and photos, people tend to bloodied passengers lying on the platform, some amid what appear to be puddles of blood, and another person is on the floor of a subway carriage. The gunman sought in the attack “is still on the loose” and dangerous, New York state governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference.

Photos and video from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke. Fire and police ...

The shootings come as New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. It wasn’t immediately clear whether officers had already been inside the station when the shootings occurred. Police officers were canvassing 4th Avenue, the station's cross-street, asking witnesses whether they were on the train. A bystander video shows people lying on the subway platform amid what appeared to be small puddles of blood, as a loudspeaker announcement told everyone on the smoke-hazy platform to get on a train. Inside a subway car, a person lay on the floor, encircled by others. Outside the station, a police officer yelled, “Let’s go!

“Frank Robert James fired numerous gun shots inside an 'N' line subway car at 36th & 4th Ave subway station causing serious injuries to 10 people,” the NYPD ...

That key led investigators to James, who has addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. “I’m just grateful to be alive,” said passenger Jordan Javier, who thought the first popping sound he heard was a book dropping. The gunman sent off smoke grenades in a crowded subway car and then fired at least 33 shots with a 9mm handgun, police said. There’s nothing going to stop that,” James said in one video. At least a dozen others who escaped gunshot wounds were treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries. Anyone with info about the incident or his whereabouts should contact@NYPDTipsor call 1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/MaeF16i4bX

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An unidentified gunman detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire at Brooklyn's 36th Street station during rush hour.

“There was a lot of loud pops, and there was smoke in the other car,” she said. New York City has faced a spate of shootings and high-profile bloodshed in recent months, including on the city’s subways. High school student John Butsikaris was riding the other train when he saw a conductor urging everyone to get in. In another video, smoke and people pour out of a subway car, some limping. Police were scouring the city for the shooter and found a rental van possibly connected to the violence. “This individual is still on the loose. "This is an active shooter situation right now in the city of New York.” It left some New Yorkers jittery about riding the nation's busiest subway system and prompted officials to increase policing at transportation hubs from Philadelphia to Connecticut. By early evening, police found a matching, unoccupied U-Haul van in Brooklyn, one of the officials said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has completed an urgent trace to identify the gun's manufacturer, seller and initial owner. They said the suspect is believed to have had at least two extended magazines. At least one collapsed on the platform.

Tuesday morning, 16 people were injured during an attack that began on a New York City subway car during morning rush hour. Authorities are still looking ...

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A masked gunman set off a smoke bomb and opened fire in a New York City subway car today, injuring 16 people and throwing the morning commute into chaos in ...

White House staff were in touch with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the police commissioner to offer any assistance, the White House said. "He took it upon himself to make sure that people were alerted, despite being injured." "The train at that time began to fill with smoke. Today it's New York, tomorrow it's Washington, then it's Chicago," he said. Images showed streaks of blood on the platform. Riders trapped inside poured out, some collapsing to the ground.

Smoke devices found at Brooklyn scene and reports indicate five suffered gunshot wounds.

Inside a subway carriage, one person could be seen lying on the floor, encircled by others. He said a preliminary investigation was under way but authorities did not have a positive identification of the suspect. Photograph: Andrew Hinderaker/The New York Times

Police in New York are hunting for a man who filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke before opening fire on passengers.

The shootings come as New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. It wasn’t immediately clear whether officers had already been inside the station when the shootings occurred. Police officers were canvassing 4th Avenue, the station's cross-street, asking witnesses whether they were on the train. One of the most shocking was in January when a woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a stranger. In other video and photos, people tend to bloodied passengers lying on the platform, some amid what appear to be puddles of blood, and another person is on the floor of a subway carriage. The gunman sought in the attack "is still on the loose" and dangerous, New York state governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference.

At least 16 injured and five in critical condition following attack at Brooklyn station.

Inside a subway carriage, one person could be seen lying on the floor, encircled by others. He said a preliminary investigation was under way but authorities did not have a positive identification of the suspect. Photograph: Andrew Hinderaker/The New York Times

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Man set off smoke bombs and sprayed fellow passengers with gunfire during commuter rush.

New York City has seen a sharp rise in violent crime during the pandemic, including a string of seemingly random attacks on its subways. The gunman removed two canisters from his bag and opened them, sending smoke throughout the train car. Police said they recovered the key to the van at the crime scene, and that Mr James had addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin. Attempts by Reuters to reach any of the phone numbers associated with James were unsuccessful.

BA.2 now represents of 86% of new cases, almost completely displacing the earlier version of omicron that fueled the unprecedented winter surge.

BA.2 represents 84% of new cases in the mid-Atlantic region that includes the nation's capital. The city made the decision after Covid cases rose more than 50% in 10 days, according to Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia's health commissioner. New York City reported about 1,887 new infections a day on average as of Saturday, a 52% increase over the past two weeks, according to data from the city's health department. New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for the virus on Sunday after waking up with a raspy voice. Adams attended the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, an annual event that brings together prominent government officials and journalists. Biden, who also did not attend the Gridiron Dinner, subsequently tested negative for Covid. Though infections are rising, most counties still have low levels of Covid transmission and hospitalizations, which means people who live in those areas don't need to wear masks indoors under CDC public health guidance. BA.2 represents 92% of new cases in the region that includes New York and New Jersey, according to the CDC data. The U.S. reported more than 30,000 new infections on Monday, a 20% increase over the previous week, according to data from the CDC. However, infections and hospitalization are still more than 90% below the peak of the omicron surge in January. Covid infections are rising again in the U.S. with outbreaks in New York City and Washington, D.C., resulting in senior government officials coming down with the virus as the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant sweeps across the country. BA.2 now represents of 86% of sequenced new cases, almost completely displacing the earlier version of omicron that fueled the unprecedented winter surge, according to Covid surveillance data published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The BA.2 subvariant is anywhere from 30% to 80% more transmissible than the earlier omicron variant, BA.1, according to studies from the U.K. and Denmark. - BA.2 now represents of 86% of sequenced new cases, almost completely displacing the earlier version of omicron that fueled the unprecedented winter surge.

Investigators announced a $50000 reward for information leading to the capture of Mr. James, 62, but stopped short of calling him a suspect.

Another video on the channel, posted in 2020, appeared to have been taken in New York’s subways. In a video posted to YouTube on March 1, the person featured in the video criticized Mayor Eric Adams by name for recently announced policies addressing public safety in the subways, which focused on homeless people. “He can’t stop no crime in no subways,” the man said, using multiple expletives. It appeared that Mr. James had rented the van in Philadelphia sometime over the last several days, driven it close to the subway line where the attack occurred and abandoned it there, one official said. But New York’s police commissioner, Keechant Sewell, said that citizens should call with any information they had on Mr. James. The man, Frank R. James, 62, has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, the police said.