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Thursday 14 april 2022
Man arrested in Brooklyn subway attack, charged with terror

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, MI- thorities "were able to shrink
CHAEL BALSAMO and JEN- his world quickly."
NIFER PELTZ "There was nowhere left for
Associated Press him to run," she said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The The day before, James set
man accused of shooting off smoke grenades in a
10 people on a Brooklyn commuter-packed subway
subway train was arrested car and then fired at least
Wednesday and charged 33 shots with a 9 mm hand-
with a federal terrorism of- gun, police said.
fense after a daylong man- Police Chief of Detectives
hunt and a tipster's call led James Essig said police
police to him on a Manhat- were told that after James
tan street. opened one of the smoke
Frank R. James, 62, was tak- grenades, a rider asked,
en into custody about 30 "What did you do?"
hours after the carnage on "Oops," James said, then
a rush-hour train, which left went on to brandish his gun
five victims in critical con- and open fire, according
dition and people around to a witness account.
the city on edge. At least a dozen people
"My fellow New Yorkers, we who escaped gunshot
got him," Mayor Eric Adams wounds were treated for
said. New York City Police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, smoke inhalation and other
James was awaiting ar- 62, center, away from a police station, in New York, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. injuries.
raignment on a charge Associated Press The shooter left behind nu-
that pertains to terrorist merous clues, including the
or other violent attacks James had ties to terror or- shouting questions as he They got a tip Wednesday gun, ammunition maga-
against mass transit systems ganizations, international was walked from a police that he was in a McDonald's zines, a hatchet, smoke
and carries a sentence of or otherwise, Peace said. station to an unmarked po- in Manhattan's East Village grenades, gasoline and
up to life in prison, Brooklyn It wasn't immediately clear lice car a few hours after his neighborhood, Chief of the key to a U-Haul van.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace whether James, who is from arrest. Department Kenneth Co- That key led investigators to
said. New York but has lived re- As terrified riders fled the rey said. James was gone James.
In recent months, James cently in Philadelphia and attack, James apparently when officers arrived, but Federal investigators deter-
railed in online videos about Milwaukee, has an attorney hopped another train — they soon spotted him on a mined the gun used in the
racism and violence in the or anyone else who can the same one many were busy corner nearby. shooting was purchased by
U.S. and about his experi- speak for him. A sign taped steered to for safety, police Four police cars zoomed James at a pawn shop —
ences with mental health to the door of James' Mil- said. He got out at the next around a corner, officers a licensed firearms dealer
care in New York City, and waukee apartment asks station, disappearing into leaped out and, soon, a — in the Columbus, Ohio,
he had criticized Adams' that all mail be delivered to the nation's most populous compliant James was in area in 2011.
policies on mental health a post office box. city. handcuffs as a crowd of The van was found, un-
and subway safety. But the James, in a blue t-shirt and Police launched a massive people looked on, witness occupied, near a station
motive for the subway at- brown pants with his hands effort to find him, releasing Aleksei Korobow said. where investigators deter-
tack remains unclear, and cuffed behind his back, his name and issuing cell- Police Commissioner mined the gunman had en-
there is no indication that didn't respond to reporters phone alerts. Keechant Sewell said au- tered the subway system.q

23 injured in Texas storms; more tornadoes forecast in U.S.

to spawn more twisters and Photos on social media reports of serious injuries.
damaging winds Wednes- showed grapefruit-size hail Weather service crews
day. associated with that storm. were assessing damage in
The storms caused wide- Tornadoes were also spot- the area Wednesday.
spread damage Tuesday in ted Tuesday in Iowa, but More tornadoes were in
Salado, about 50 miles (80 there were no reports of se- the forecast Wednesday
kilometers) north of Austin. rious injuries. In Lincoln, Ne- for parts of the mid-South
Bell County Judge David braska, powerful wind gusts and in the Mississippi River
Blackburn said 23 people knocked down tree limbs Valley, the Storm Prediction
were injured, one of them and caused some roof Center said.
critically. Twelve of the in- damage. A possible torna- Hurricane-force winds, in-
jured were taken to hospi- do also caused damage in tense tornadoes and large
tals, Blackburn said. the small southern Minne- hail were possible in Ar-
"There's not much left," said sota town of Taopi near the kansas, Illinois, Tennessee,
Blackburn, the county's state's border with Iowa. Missouri, Kentucky, Missis-
top elected official. "Large Mower County Sheriff Steve sippi, Indiana, Louisiana
Michelle Light hugs her uncle Paul Bales on Wednesday April 13,
2022, a day after a tornado destroyed her home on FM 2843 and trees are uprooted and Sandvik said dispatchers and Alabama, forecasters
Cedar Valley Road near Salado, Texas. overturned and stripped. began getting calls from said. Little Rock, Arkansas,
Associated Press Buildings really reduced residents trapped in their and Memphis, Tennessee,
to rubble. ... Power lines, damaged homes not long were among the cities that
SALADO, Texas (AP) — does swept through cen- power poles, are scattered after a tornado warning si- could see the worst weath-
Nearly two dozen people tral Texas as part of a storm all over the place. It's pretty ren sounded at 10:30 p.m. er Wednesday, the Storm
were injured when torna- system that was expected devastating." Tuesday. There were no Prediction Center said.q