The New York City Police (NYPD) announced Tuesday evening at a press briefing that they are looking for a “person of interest” in connection with the shots fired in the subway, in Brooklyn.
The suspect was described as “a black man” about 1.65m tall, “heavy build”, and wearing a “green and orange construction vest” and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
At the scene, the investigators found a handgun and three magazines, as well as a vehicle key which allowed them to go back to a van from the American rental company U-Haul, recently rented and abandoned in Brooklyn.
Police gave the description of the individual who rented the vehicle in Philadelphia, a 62-year-old man “with addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin,” without saying whether he was the suspect.
“We were really lucky that it wasn’t much more serious,” said New York Police Chief Keechant Sewell, summarizing the authorities’ relief after this attack where the suspect – still at large 12 hours after the shooting – fired 33 bullets in the subway.
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