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Continued from Front nounced last fall that it had Butsikaris was riding the oth-
Smoke poured out of put security cameras in all er train when he saw a con-
the train car as the door 472 subway stations city- ductor urging everyone to
opened, he added. wide, saying they would get in. He thought it might
Five people were in critical put criminals on an "ex- be a mundane problem
condition but expected press track to justice." But until the next stop, when he
to survive. At least 29 in all the cameras apparently heard screams for medical
were treated at hospitals malfunctioned in the sta- attention and his train was
for gunshot wounds, smoke tion where the train arrived, evacuated.
inhalation and other condi- Mayor Eric Adams told "I'm definitely shook," the
tions. WCBS-AM. 15-year-old told The Associ-
The gunfire erupted on One rider's video, shot ated Press. "Even though I
a train that pulled into a through a closed door be- didn't see what happened,
station in the Sunset Park tween subway cars, shows I'm still scared, because it
neighborhood, about a a person in a hooded was like a few feet away
15-minute ride from Man- sweatshirt raising an arm from me, what happened."
hattan and predominant- and pointing at something No transit workers were
ly home to Hispanic and as five bangs sound. In an- physically hurt, according
Asian communities. This photo provided by Will B Wylde, a person is aided outside a other video, smoke and to their union. Besides gun-
Police Commissioner subway car in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April people pour out of a sub- shot wounds, the injured
Keechant Sewell said the 12, 2022. way car, some limping. riders were treated for
attack was not being in- Associated Press "Someone call 911!" a per- smoke inhalation, shrapnel
vestigated as terrorism, but son shouts. and panic.
that she was "not ruling out a handgun at the scene, pleted an urgent trace to Other video and photos In Menlo, Iowa, President
anything." The shooter's along with multiple smoke identify the gun's manu- from the scene show peo- Joe Biden praised "the first
motive was unknown. devices and other items facturer, seller and initial ple tending to bloodied responders who jumped
Authorities were giving offi- they are analyzing, said owner. passengers lying on the in action, including civil-
cers a photo they believed the officials, who were not The attack unnerved a platform — some amid ians, civilians, who didn't
to depict the gunman, and authorized to discuss the city on guard about a rise what appear to be small hesitate to help their fel-
the Arizona license plate investigation and spoke in gun violence and the puddles of blood — and low passengers and tried to
number of a U-Haul truck on condition of anonymity. ever-present threat of ter- another person on the floor shield them."
to look out for, two law en- They said the suspect is be- rorism. It left some New of a subway car. Adams, who is isolating fol-
forcement officials said. Of- lieved to have had at least Yorkers jittery about riding Rider Juliana Fonda, a lowing a positive COVID-19
ficers were told that if they two extended magazines. the nation's busiest subway broadcast engineer at test on Sunday, said in a
spotted the truck, they Investigators believe the system and prompted of- WNYC-FM, told its news site video statement that the
should stop it and detain weapon jammed, prevent- ficials to increase policing Gothamist that passengers city "will not allow New
all occupants immediately. ing the suspect from con- at transportation hubs from from the car behind hers Yorkers to be terrorized,
U-Haul said it was ensuring tinuing to fire, the officials Philadelphia to Connecti- started banging on the even by a single individual."
authorities had any infor- said. The federal Bureau of cut. connecting door. New York City has faced
mation needed. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms The Metropolitan Trans- "There was a lot of loud a spate of shootings and
Investigators recovered and Explosives has com- portation Authority an- pops, and there was smoke high-profile incidents in re-
in the other car," she said. cent months, including on
"And people were trying to the city's subways. One of
get in and they couldn't, the most shocking was in
they were pounding on the January, when a woman
door to get into our car." was pushed to her death in
As police searched for the front of a train by a strang-
shooter, Gov. Kathy Hochul er.
warned New Yorkers to be Adams, a Democrat a little
vigilant. over 100 days into his term,
"This individual is still on the has made cracking down
loose. This person is danger- on crime — especially on
ous," the Democrat said at the subways — a focus of
a news conference just af- his early administration,
ter noon. "This is an active pledging to send more
shooter situation right now police officers into stations
in the city of New York." and platforms for regular
Fire and police officials had patrols. It wasn't immedi-
responded to reports of an ately clear whether officers
explosion, but Sewell said were already inside the sta-
at the press conference tion when the shootings oc-
that there were no known curred.
explosive devices. Multiple Danny Mastrogiorgio of
smoke devices were found Brooklyn had just dropped
on the scene, mayoral his son off at school when
spokesperson Fabien Levy he saw a crush of panicked
said. passengers, some of them
After people streamed out wounded, running up the
of the train, quick-thinking stairway at the nearby 25th
transit workers ushered pas- Street station. At least two
sengers to another train had visible leg injuries, he
across the platform for said.
safety, MTA system chief "It was insane," he told the
Janno Lieber noted. AP. "No one knew exactly
High school student John what was going on."q