The perpetrator of the New York subway attack, Frank James, was arrested. CNN reports it citing the police. Frank James did not oppose any resistance to arrest, always reports CNN. The man was stopped in the East Village, between St. Marks and First Avenue as he walked down the street as if nothing had happened. Two officers saw him and arrested him. Frank James had been identified by a passerby while he was sitting at a nearby McDonald’s where he was arrested. The police were immediately notified but by the time the officers arrived James had already moved. The patrols of the area then began which led to his arrest as he walked down the street as if nothing had happened.
Frank James risks spending the rest of his life in prison. One of the charges that weigh on him is that of a federal terrorist offense. “We are investigating ‘whether Frank James’ had planned any more attacks,” New York police say, noting that the agents’ goal was to get him off the street as soon as possible. Investigations continue to understand the motive, add the police The man has been arrested several times in the past. “Nine previous arrests between 1992 and 1998 in New York, and three in New Jersey,” NYPD said. The pistol James attacked in the New York subway, a nine-millimeter Glock, was purchased in Ohio.
The 62-year-old African American is the owner of the credit card used to rent the van linked to the attack and found a few blocks from the Sunset Park station in Brooklyn. At the moment very little is known about James: he rented the vehicle in Philadelphia, where he has one of his residences. The other is in Wisconsin. Preliminary investigations into his presence on social media revealed “worrying” videos in which he spoke of the homeless problem, of New York and its mayor Eric Adams. The police merely define James as a person of interest and not a suspect or alleged perpetrator. It is not clear whether he is due to excessive prudence or because it has not really emerged with force that he may be responsible. Inside the station the cameras were not working and so the police – who offer $ 50,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator – are forced to sift through the videos of witnesses for indications and to cross paths. information at your disposal.
Details about the minutes of terror and panic in the subway continue to emerge intact: the suspect was inside the car when he pulled a smoke canister from his backpack. Then he put on the gas mask and started shooting. At least 33 rounds were fired then the pistol, a 9mm Glock, jammed and this would have avoided the worst. At that point the man, dressed like a subway attendant, ran away. At the stop, in addition to the used gun, a bag was found with the keys of the rented van, ammunition, a hatchet, fireworks and a container with gasoline. “We were lucky, it could have been a lot worse,” says New York Police Chief Keechant Sewell of the 23 injured.
None of them are life threatening. Sewell then assures that the investigations continue tightly with hundreds of agents engaged in the field. Adams also tries to ease the tension by ensuring his commitment to combat rampant violence, particularly in the subway which has long been the stage of attacks of various kinds. Among the hypotheses feared by the mayor is that of metal detectors.
Joe Biden also assures the necessary support for the battle, called to the hard fist from many sides in the face of a leap in violence at the national level.
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