Police have recovered a pistol and several high-capacity magazines at the New York subway station where this Tuesday ten people were shot by a man who for now has not been arrested, local media reported.
(Read: New York subway: shooting leaves at least 16 injured)
The weapon, a Glock pistol, was apparently jammed, a problem that may have prevented the shooter from causing further damagethey told the newspaper New York Post police sources.
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Dozens of other people could have been injured or have more serious injuries.
“It was lucky that it got stuck, because we could be talking about a lot more people in hospitals or worseOne of those sources told the newspaper.
Chain CNNciting two police sources, reported that the investigators also recovered fireworks and gunpowder from the scene, with which the aggressor supposedly created a smoke screen.
In total, 16 people were injured in the event, ten of them hit by bullets, half of whom are in critical but stable condition. According to police, all are expected to survive.
Authorities are now looking for the suspect, a man wearing a green construction vest and gas mask who launched a device to fill the train car with smoke before shooting at passengers inside as he passed through Brooklyn. .
According to security videosthe person responsible for the attack, who presumably escaped in the midst of the confusion, is of average height and stocky build, said New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
The search for the fugitive
The New York authorities are looking for the man who opened fire this Tuesday morning during rush hour in the subway and left ten people wounded by gunshots, in a chaotic attack for now without terrorist links.
Four hours after the events Police Chief Keechant Sewell told the media that the shooting is not being investigated as terrorism. and noted that “although it has been a violent incident, apparently no one is fatally injured as a result of this case.”
Of the ten wounded by bullets, half are in critical but stable condition, said a health source, while there are another 19 treated in hospitals, several of them due to smoke inhalation.
The suspect is a man wearing a green construction vest and gas mask who launched a device to fill the train car with smoke before shooting at the commuters inside as it passed through Brooklyn.
The man, a black man of average height with a heavy build, reportedly escaped in the confusion. Authorities have asked for citizen cooperation to try to locate him and police are looking for a rental van from the U-Haul company that could be linked to the case, according to various media.
Apparently, one or more security cameras installed in the subway station failed and did not capture images of the suspect, something that is being investigated, which has forced the use of images taken by train passengers with their mobile phones.
The incident took place around 8:30 a.m. while the train was waiting to enter the 36th Street station, at the height of the Sunset Park neighborhood, at which time the individual launched his device to spread smoke, opened fire and injured “multiple people on the train and on the platform Sewell detailed.
The statements of the witnesses to the local media and the recordings shared on social networks paint a chaotic scene, with the frightened passengers and the bleeding wounded, scattered throughout the car and on the platform floor while they are being treated.
A witness who was present at the shooting, identified as Yav Montano, told CNN how the passengers started bumping into each other inside when “the smoke engulfed everything” and the feeling of “panic” lived before the doors of the car were opened.
Sara, a Spanish tourist who was going to have breakfast in a place near the metro station when the attack occurred, described to Efe the confusion that was experienced in the initial moments.
“At first no one knew what had happened, only that there was an incident in the subway,” he explained, stressing that no one had any idea at the time of the “magnitude” of what had happened.
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*With information from EFE and AFP
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