He then is accused of firing 33 shots with a 9-mm. Just before 8:30 a.m., after the train left the 59th Street station, James is accused of throwing smoke grenades inside the second car from the front of the train. After exiting the van dressed like a transit worker in a reflective vest and jacket, he boarded a Manhattan-bound N train. Early Tuesday morning, he drove a rented U-Haul from Philadelphia to Brooklyn. Officials pieced together the most detailed timeline yet of the attack during a press conference announcing James’s arrest. 5j3DrFqnMx- Jake Offenhartz April 13, 2022 He says news of the presser left him unable to sleep. Zack Dahnan, the 21-year old security camera installer who first spotted the suspected subway shooter in the East Village, is holding an impromptu press conference on 1st Avenue. “I told the police, this is the guy! Catch him! Catch him!” Dahnan said during an impromptu press conference later. Just a block away on First Avenue, a security-camera installer named Zack Dahnan saw James openly walking down the sidewalk. When officers arrived, he was already gone. Hours later, police said they received a tip that James was at a McDonald’s in the East Village. At 10:20 a.m., authorities issued a citywide alert with his name, age, and description. Authorities struggled to conclusively link James to the attack, until Wednesday morning when they upgraded him from a “person of interest” to suspect. New York’s most-wanted man somehow evaded capture for more than 30 hours, then practically turned himself in a bizarre final twist to an inexplicable rampage. His motive is not clear, but he made disturbing social-media posts prior to the attack about Mayor Eric Adams and New York City.
He was hit with terrorism charges by Brooklyn federal prosecutors under a terrorism statute and faces up to life in prison for the attack that wounded ten people and injured dozens more. New York City Police and Fire Department officials on the scene of the shooting.Īfter a daylong manhunt, police said Wednesday they have apprehended the man who allegedly opened fire inside a train car in Brooklyn on Tuesday, unleashing the bloodiest attack on the subway in recent memory.įrank James, 62, was arrested after he reportedly told police where he was in Manhattan.
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