Status: April 12, 2022 6:11 pm
At least 13 people were injured in a gunshot at a New York subway station, police said. The culprit is perhaps on the run.
Several people were killed in a subway station in New York’s Brooklyn borough. Firefighters went to the station after reports of smoke and found several people killed, a New York Fire Department spokesman said. At least 13 people were injured in the incident, although it is unclear how many of them were hit by the bullets.
A photo from the scene showed people tending to blood-smeared passengers. The wounded lay on the floor of the subway station.
“There Was ‘Only’ One Shooting,” Peter Mücke, ARD New York, on the New York City Subway Incident
tagesschau24 18:00, April 12, 2022
The shots were fired during rush hour
The shots were fired in the morning rush hour, it was reported ARD correspondent Peter Mücke. Emergency services were alerted at around 8:30am local time. The subway station is located in southern Manhattan in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, Mücke said. Sunset Park was once mainly industrial, but today many young people and families also live and work there.
At the station, several subway lines meet, whose trains have stopped at the stations. There have been numerous delays and cancellations. Schools in the area around the station have been temporarily closed, US media reported, citing a spokesman for the New York school system. Only school children were allowed in, but no one else and no one outside.
The police give the all clear: no active explosive devices
Broadcaster CNN showed cellphone video of the subway entering the station, showing smoke billowing through the carriage and people holding their clothes in front of their faces. Police said a smoke grenade was detonated before shots were fired. Contrary to initially reports, no active explosive devices were found, NYPD said on Twitter. He also urged people to avoid the area around the station.
Authors perhaps on the run
Investigators are now looking for a person wearing a gas mask and an orange work jacket. Brooklyn Borough Mayor Mark Levine tweeted that the suspected shooter was still at large.
How Antje Passenheim, ARD correspondent reported from New York, it currently seems unlikely that there was a terrorist background to the act. In recent months, however, gun incidents have become a growing problem in the city.
“Does not indicate a terrorist background,” Antje Passenheim, ARD New York, on the shootings in the New York subway
tagesschau24 17:00, April 12, 2022
US President Biden informed
US President Joe Biden has been notified of the shooting, his spokeswoman said. Senior White House officials are in contact with New York Mayor Eric Adams and the police establishment. If necessary, the government is ready to give the city all the help it needs.
