New York Times reports a mass casualty incident in Brooklyn Subway

16 People Are Injured, Including 10 Shot, in Attack on Brooklyn Subway
Five of the victims were in critical condition after a man in a worker’s vest put on a gas mask, opened a canister that filled a subway car with smoke, and then opened fire, the police said.

I'm not sure which line this was on as it is not in the article

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/12 ... e2ae50e869

Officially NY police say it was the N line. A CBS video of the inside of the car had the rolling sign say R. In this case suspect rolling sign wrong but ??????

EDIT: Now appears that reason for R train video was a few injured persons got on the R train.

west point wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 12:50 pm Officially NY police say it was the N line. A CBS video of the inside of the car had the rolling sign say R. In this case suspect rolling sign wrong but ??????

EDIT: Now appears that reason for R train video was a few injured persons got on the R train.

It happened in car 5551, which is an R46 and operating on the N. The reason an R train was shown in some of the news reports is because many of the people on the N ran across the platform to an R train of R160s and took it to the next stop - 25th St and then ran up to the street.

The link below is to the video shown on major TV news. You can see the smoke coming out of car 5551.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kristofferku ... 3453333513

I heard about it and jumped on WPIX (https://pix11.com)'s live feed. It was a northbound N, and the R stayed a small bit to get folks evac'ed.

Some immediate take-aways are that the security cameras in 36th street were broken at the time -- only someone recording video got the aftermath when it stopped.

Man wanted in Brooklyn subway shooting that wounded 10 people arrested, officials say

https://www.nj.com/news/2022/04/man-wan ... s-say.html

Supposedly there were people wounded that were not shot? Smoke inhalation?

BandA wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:23 pm Supposedly there were people wounded that were not shot? Smoke inhalation?

Yes. 6 of them were treated for smoke inhalation.

But good news! They caught the guy:
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/suspe ... y-sources/

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Police arrested the suspected Brooklyn subway shooter Wednesday, the day after he allegedly opened fire on a train, shooting 10 people, officials said.

Frank R. James, 62, had been identified as a person of interest on Tuesday and then upgraded to a suspect in the case. He was captured in Manhattan. James faces up to life in prison if he’s convicted, prosecutors said. He’s being charged federally on a terrorism offense.

He's mentally ill. And turned himself in. Was known to the FBI. All the security cameras were broken. Lots of stuff to work on!

BandA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 1:37 pm He's mentally ill. And turned himself in. Was known to the FBI. All the security cameras were broken. Lots of stuff to work on!

Misogynist and xenophobic social media posts.
I bet a history of domestic violence.
And was known to FBI.

OTOH, now I know who shops at Phantom Fireworks.

BandA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 1:37 pm He's mentally ill. And turned himself in. Was known to the FBI. All the security cameras were broken. Lots of stuff to work on!

You should be a bit more specific on the cameras.

The 36th St station cameras were not working but the cameras at the Kings Highway station where James got on were working fine as those recorded him entering at the turnstiles.

BandA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 1:37 pm He's mentally ill. And turned himself in. Was known to the FBI. All the security cameras were broken. Lots of stuff to work on!

In the Federal Court, the following standard will be applied to determine if the defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity: ""Every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, and not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong."

NPR reported a bit on the history of the shooter's social media. From the transcript (I listened to it yesterday):

JOUSEF: You know, James did post one item on Facebook from a neo-Nazi group called The Base, suggesting that maybe Black people could take lessons from how it organizes and trains. And some on social media seemed eager to brand him an extreme leftist or affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, but that simply wasn't clear. He seemed to be for Black liberation, but he also discounted civil rights and social justice movements as a waste of time.

ESTRIN: OK - not a very consistent ideology.

So I think the defense calling for a mental evaluation was the right thing to do. As one famous Texan once said, "That boy ain't right."