The victim is a 34-year-old male. Although we do not know the identity of the five injured, four are seriously injured. The shooter is at large.
One person was killed and five others were injured on Monday (February 13) after shots were fired on a New York subway platform, police in the American megacity announced. The dead man is a 34-year-old man, and the five injured include two women and three other men, aged 14 to 71, police officials (NYPD) said during a press briefing on the steps of the Skytrain. The Bronx, the most deprived in the city.
The shooter is at large
It was not a question of a lone shooter who opened fire “randomly” on passengers, Commissioner Michael Kemper clarified, in a city marked by the crime of a sixty-year-old man who opened fire on a crowded metro train in 2022. , miraculously only about thirty people were injured.
Late Monday afternoon, two groups of youths were “arguing” on a train entering the station, when a member of one group pulled out a weapon and opened fire on the platform, just as the carriage doors were opening. Closed, Michael Kemper said.
The police official did not identify the victims except to clarify that “one of them, a 34-year-old man, unfortunately died in hospital”.
Of the five injured hospitalized, the New York Fire Department (FDNY) deemed four “critically” injured. The shooter remains at large and police have launched an appeal for witnesses.
“Extremely rare and unacceptable”
At the Mount Eden Avenue station in the Bronx, completely cordoned off, the subway is airborne and an AFP photographer saw scores of police and emergency vehicles. Television footage filmed by a drone shows the train stopping and plainclothes police and investigators busy on the platform.
“This is not normal. Shootings like this are extremely rare and unacceptable in the Metro network,” police officer Michael Kemper assured.
Crime and especially homicides by firearms have been declining in New York since 2022–2023 following the Covid pandemic, and compared to other cities and states in the United States, the carrying of weapons in public is strictly regulated.
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