New York: 13 injured in Brooklyn subway station shooting, undetonated devices found
At least 13 people were injured, including seven who were shot, when a suspect set off a smoke grenade and unleashed gunfire on a Brooklyn subway train during Tuesday morning rush hour, the NYPD and law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The bloody attack broke out around 8:30 a.m. on a Manhattan-bound N train at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, where authorities discovered several undetonated devices, FDNY and police said.
The suspect, who was dressed in apparent construction garb similar to an MTA worker and donning a gas mask, according to a witness, is believed to have set off the smoke grenade moments before gunfire erupted, police sources told The Post.
Five people were shot in one subway car and two in another, a source said.
Footage showed screaming passengers spewing out onto the platform as soon as the train doors opened and clouds of smoke billowed out.
Graphic photos on social media showed the injured lying on blood-stained subway platform floors.
A straphanger who was on the train when the violence broke out told The Post there were so many rounds fired off, she “lost count.”
“There was like, lots of them. I don’t even know how many,” said the woman, who only gave her first name, Claire.
She said she saw the suspect — who was described as a 5-foot-5 man, around 170 pounds and wearing an orange vest and gas mask — drop “some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top.
“I thought he was an MTA worker at first because I was like, I didn’t like pay too much attention, you know, ‘You’ve got the orange on,’ ” she said.
The NYPD’s bomb squad was on the scene investigating, and authorities were currently scouring MTA surveillance to try and identify the suspect.
The injured were taken to NYU Langone of Brooklyn and Methodist Hospital, officials said.
Mayor Eric Adams has been briefed on the incident, a spokesman said.
“While we gather more information, we ask New Yorkers to stay away from this area for their safety and so that first responders can help those in need and investigate,” the spokesman said.
Schools in the immediate vicinity have been put in lockdown, a city Department of Education spokesman said.