A New York Police Department spokesman said no arrests had been made following the shooting and it was unclear what condition the five injured people were in. Local media, citing unnamed police sources, said the five injuries were not life-threatening.
Members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) investigate the scene of a shooting at the Mount Eden subway station in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., February 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS
The most recent data shows that crime rates on New York's subway system are low: an average of about 3.8 million trips are made on the system on a weekday, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported 570 serious assaults in all of 2023.
Shootings are particularly rare: in 2022, when a man with a handgun wounded 10 people on a train traveling through Brooklyn, it was the first mass shooting on the subway system since 1984.
Weeks later, in May 2022, a man shot and killed 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez on the Q train in what police said was an unprovoked attack.
Concerns about how dangerous the subway is for passengers grew early in the pandemic, with subway crime rates spiking in early 2020 but falling back to normal levels in 2021.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former city police captain, has sought to reassure nervous commuters by increasing the number of police officers at subway stations.
Mai Anh (according to Reuters)
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