Five people will share the $50,000 reward promised by the police to whoever helped catch the man who last Tuesday fired indiscriminately in a subway car New Yorkleaving ten passengers wounded by bullets.
Police said those five people were the ones who provided “critical information” to help catch the alleged perpetrator of the shootingafter a long search of thirty hours in which the aggressor was missing.
Not have communiqué the names of the five winners because in this type of citizen collaboration the anonymity of the informants is usually guaranteed.
However, several media have reported – and the police have not denied it – that it was the perpetrator of the shooting himself, Frank James, a 62-year-old man already formally charged and in provisional prison without bail, who called the police to surrender.
James walked into a McDonald’s and from there, with his own cell phone, he dialed the citizen collaboration number: “I think you are looking for me. I’ve seen my picture all over the news and I’m going to be around this McDonald’s“, said Jamesdepending on the chain ABC.
When the police arrived, James He had already left the restaurant, but an individual helped the agents locate him a few meters further, where he was finally detained without opposing endurance.
Among the people who claim to have provided relevant information is a Syrian migrant named Zack Tahhanwho has been extensively interviewed by different television channels, as well as the Mexican Francisco Puebla, who runs a hardware and gardening store in the East Village.
