NEW YORK – The suspect possibly responsible for a shooting during an attempted robbery aboard a New York City subway has been arrested, police said.
After allegedly shooting a passenger on a train as it arrived at the Union Square station on Monday afternoon rush hour, police said the man was arrested at the same station. The alleged attacker had the same green and black shoes and was practically in the same place.
“He was found to have three loaded firearms in a heap of $ 100 bills,” said New York Police Chief of Transit Kathleen O’Reilly.
One of the weapons may have been used in Monday’s shooting that left a 42-year-old subway passenger injured after the suspect tried to steal his cell phone. The victim, who is in the hospital, told our sister chain NBC New York who is still traumatized.
The authorities indicated that the victim, who was sitting, was approached by an armed individual who demanded that he hand over his cell phone. The victim was then shot in the leg before the train entered the station.
The uniformed officer claimed that just minutes before the arrest Tuesday, the suspect had robbed a Chase bank on Seventh Avenue. Officers followed a hunch that he would return to the train and searched the carriages until they found him. Police said they found him in the last car of the train, which overlooks the part of the park where he left on Monday.
O’Reilly didn’t give the suspect much credit for returning to the scene of the shooting just a day later.
“Very silly. We broadcast images of those shoes, easily identifiable, easy for officers to detect,” O’Reilly said.
The swift work of New York City Police traffic officers contributed to the suspect’s three-day crime spree. Police said that just before Monday’s shooting at the subway station, the suspect robbed a nearby TD Bank. He is also accused of robbing a customer in a warehouse on 41st Street.
“It is clear that putting cameras in all subway stations has paid off. In this case, while investigators determine the charges that the alleged perpetrator will face, we know that an alert officer recognized the man suspected of attacking subway passengers. and rob banks because NYC Transit security got his picture, “said MTA communications director Tim Minton. “That and hundreds of additional NYPD officers across the system are among the reasons why traffic crime is at a 25-year low and why new pandemic passenger records are being set every week.” .
The suspect, who has not been identified, was captured with two pistols and a revolver, and faces pending charges.
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