Photo/video by an EVG reader
This just in from St. Mark's Place and First Avenue (the NE corner) ... the NYPD has arrested Frank R. James, 62, who was named a "person of interest" after the mass shooting on the subway in Sunset Park yesterday morning.
Here's a short clip after the NYPD cuffed James...
Elsewhere...
#BREAKING: Suspect is in custody according to five senior law enforcement officials. He was arrested in the East Village this afternoon. https://t.co/Dh9NFZ3PMh
— myles miller (@MylesMill) April 13, 2022
Per published reports, the shooting left 10 people with gunshot wounds and an additional 13 injured from panic attacks or smoke inhalation during the rush to escape.Just witnessed the subway shooter Frank James being arrested in the middle of the East Village…crazy…. pic.twitter.com/g5CJsUpUSF
— lex (@Ayy_Korobow) April 13, 2022
Updated 5 p.m.
According to the Associated Press, James is awaiting arraignment on "a charge that pertains to terrorist or other violent attacks against mass transit systems and carries a sentence of up to life in prison."
James was reportedly in the McDonald's on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street where several witnesses, including Zack Tahhan, 21, who was working for MACA security integrators outside Saifee Hardware, and the shop's manager, Frank Puebla, spotted the alleged shooter.
Puebla said he flagged down an NYPD cruiser that just stopped at the light on the SE corner of First Avenue and Seventh Street. (We an interview with Tahhan and Puebla here.)
CNN is reporting that James called the tipline on himself.
Back to the AP story:
James was gone when officers arrived, but they soon spotted him on a busy corner nearby.Four police cars zoomed around a corner, officers leaped out and, soon, a compliant James was in handcuffs as a crowd of people looked on, witness Aleksei Korobow said.
Officers from the 9th Precinct on Fifth Street made the arrest.