New York searches for Frank James, suspect in subway shooting

With increased police presence in the seasons and the possible fears bent by obligationsthe new york subway and its passengers have returned this Wednesday to their routine a day after the shooting that unleashed chaos and panic and left 23 people injured, including 10 hit by bullets. Meanwhile, the city continues intense and for now unsuccessful police activity in search from Frank Robert James, the 62 year old black male that this Wednesday has been formally identified as suspicious after initially being singled out on Tuesday only as a “person of interest.”

On 4/12/22 at 8:30 AM, Frank Robert James fired numerous gun shots inside an “N” line subway car at 36th St & 4th Ave subway station causing serious injuries to 10 people. Anyone with info about the incident or his whereabouts should contact him @NYPDTips or call 1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/MaeF16i4bX

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 13, 2022

There are no doubts in the authorities that James was the one who unleashed the terror in the second car of the N line when it was moving full during rush hour between the 59th Street and 36th Street stations in Sunset Park in Brooklyn throwing two smoke grenades and then opening fire with at least 33 shots. Keep asking for citizen collaboration to locate it and has been offered a $50,000 reward for anyone who may offer information leading to your arrest.

There is no longer any doubt that James belongs to a long series of disturbing videos on youtube, which the platform has eliminated this Wednesday by suspending James’s account, which operated under the name “Prophet of Truth”, for “violating the community guidelines”. They are recordings that he began to hang up two yearswith the last one dated this Monday, in which he launched racist rantsagainst both whites and blacks, and misogynyas well as messages from anger, violence and threats. “We need to see more mass shootings”, he said in one of the recordings.

In some of the videos, made this year, James also carried against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, a fact that has led to reinforcing as a precautionary measure the protection of the mayor, who has been confined for three days for having tested positive for covid-19. James questioned Adams’s plans to reduce the presence of homeless people in the metro and crime in the subway and assured that they were “destined to fail”.

James also claimed to suffer Post traumatic stress and have been “victim” from the support system for people with mental disorders in New York in a crisis.

In one of the videos recorded recently after leaving Milwaukee (in Wisconsin) for Philadelphia (in Pennsylvania), two cities where he had known addresses, James assured that he was going to the “danger zone”. And in another recording on Monday he said: “I’ve been through a lot of shit where I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to see people die in front of my fucking face immediately. But I thought about the fact that, man, I don’t want to go to fucking jail.”

The search for James has been complicated by security camera failures of the metro network but the investigators have made themselves with images recorded in other stations as well as by passengers who were in the car that attacked. The event has also revived Adams’ interest in exploring the facility. technology that can contribute to detecting the presence of firearms in the subway, although the mayor’s office has had to clarify that excludes for now the idea of ​​using metal detectors similar to those at airports.