Sitting in the back of the train's second car, the gunman tossed two smoke grenades on the floor, pulled out a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and started firing, Essig said. Sewell said the attack was not being investigated as terrorism, but that she was “not ruling out anything.” The shooter's motive was unknown. At least a dozen people who escaped gunshot wounds were treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries. “I’m just grateful to be alive,” he said.įive gunshot victims were in critical condition but expected to survive. Passengers wept and prayed as they rode, Javier said. When the train pulled into the station, people ran out and were directed to another train across the platform. Then there was another pop, people started moving toward the front of the car, and he realized there was smoke, he said. Jordan Javier thought the first popping sound he heard was a textbook dropping. The attack transformed the morning commute into a scene of horror: a smoke-filled underground train, an onslaught of at least 33 bullets, screaming riders running through a station and bloodied people lying on the platform as others administered aid. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell called the posts “concerning.” James, 62, had any link to the subway attack.Īuthorities were looking at the man's apparent social media posts, some of which led officials to tighten security for New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Police were trying to track down the renter of a van possibly connected to the violence.Ĭhief of Detectives James Essig said investigators weren't sure whether the man, identified as Frank R. Alain Delaquérière contributed research.A gunman wearing a gas mask set off smoke grenades and fired a barrage of bullets inside a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn, wounding at least 10 people Tuesday, authorities said. Kaya Laterman and Andy Newman contributed reporting. Merdy said that the end of their visits, his son would say he didn’t want to go home. “He was always asking me, ‘Coach, you got my trophy? You got my trophy?’” he said.
Zachary was excited to get a championship trophy at the end of the last season, he recalled. 188, Alfred Brown, a cafeteria worker and coach for the Silverbacks football team at Coney Island Training the Youth, said Zachary was a bubbly child. Several hours later, it was quiet outside the family’s apartment at 3325 Neptune Ave., where officers walked in and out of the building throughout the morning.Īcross the street, at P.S. Sirens could be heard as lights flashed on the boardwalk where officers were administering CPR to one of the children in a video published by The New York Post. Officers searched through streets, the boardwalk, the beach and Coney Island Hospital, Chief Corey said in the news conference.
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The search for the family in the misty early hours was a full effort by the police department’s 60th Precinct. Stephen didn’t know the details of what happened on Monday. Merdy “was struggling and that was it,” declining to say anything else about her niece. Merdy’s mother’s apartment, a woman said through a closed door that she did not want to talk to a reporter on Monday afternoon.ĭine Stephen, an aunt who lives in North Carolina, said in an interview on Monday that Ms. Merdy had a lawyer, and efforts to reach her mother and other relatives were unsuccessful Monday.
“They would tell me, ‘Oh, you don’t have any real evidence.’ But they didn’t do a real investigation.”Ī spokeswoman for the city’s Administration for Children’s Services said the agency is investigating the deaths with the police department, but would not comment further. “It didn’t matter how much I called child protective services,” he said. Merdy said his efforts to get help from authorities came to nothing. “I didn’t do nothing bad she makes me starve.” “I don’t know, she makes me starve,” Zachary replied. “She makes me starve,” Zachary told his father. Merdy in an effort to further his bid for custody. He recorded his son talking about his life with Ms. Merdy said he started to become fully aware of what was happening in his son’s life when Zachary began to spend more time with him, when he was about 6. “I love him enough to let him stay with you or your mom because I want the best for him,” she wrote. Merdy says she is thinking of giving up her rights to Zachary.
Merdy kept his son in shelters, where he would go to the bathroom in a bowl.
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