A 34-year-old man was killed and 5 different individuals, together with two youngsters, had been wounded on Monday in a capturing on the Mount Eden Avenue subway station within the Bronx through the night rush hour, the police mentioned.
The wounded individuals, who ranged in age from 14 to 71, had been in secure situation and had been anticipated to get well, the police mentioned.
Police officers mentioned the capturing erupted amid a dispute between two teams of youngsters who had been on a northbound No. 4 prepare at about 4:30 p.m.
When the prepare arrived on the Mount Eden station and other people started to get off, somebody concerned within the dispute fired a shot, Michael M. Kemper, the Police Division’s chief of transit, mentioned at a information convention. The gunfire continued as riders spilled onto the platform and ran for canopy, Chief Kemper mentioned.
Officers responding to a number of 911 calls about gunfire on the station discovered the six victims on the northbound platform, the chief mentioned. Along with the person who was killed, those that had been shot included a 14-year-old lady, a 15-year-old boy, a 29-year-old girl, a 28-year-old man and a 71-year-old man.
Yanesa Ortega, an M.T.A. bus driver who has lived within the space for 5 years, mentioned she was strolling dwelling close to the station when the capturing occurred.
“We heard a lot of shots when the train stopped,” Ms. Ortega, 29, mentioned in Spanish. She added, “The bullets fell under the station.”
She described seeing a younger girl sitting on the station steps, blood coming from the realm of her jaw.
“We saw everybody screaming and running down the stairs,” Ms. Ortega mentioned.
Heriberto Paredes was at work on the Grasp Mufflers store on Jerome Avenue when he heard gunfire, he mentioned.
“What I heard sounded like a battlefield,” Mr. Paredes, 52, mentioned, additionally talking in Spanish.
He mentioned that he and a younger man had offered first help to the younger girl Ms. Ortega described. “Her whole coat was covered in blood,” he mentioned.
“I could see the despair on people’s faces,” Mr. Paredes added, “wondering how something like this could happen in a city that’s supposedly safe.”
Police officers mentioned that they had been looking for not less than one particular person in reference to the shootings and that they’d downloaded safety footage from cameras on the station as a part of the investigation.
After spiking through the Covid-19 pandemic, the variety of shootings in New York Metropolis has continued to fall, in line with Police Division information. There have been 974 shootings within the metropolis final yr, a 25 % decline from 2022, the info exhibits.
Main felonies on New York’s transit system account for a tiny fraction of the town’s total crime charge, and the probabilities of falling sufferer to crime within the subway are statistically low. An analysis by The New York Times in October estimated the speed of violent crimes within the system to be about 1.8 per a million rides.
Gunfire on the town’s subway and buses is particularly uncommon. The Police Division’s Transit Bureau reported six shootings within the subway final yr, in contrast with 9 in 2022.
However a number of of the shootings in 2022 — together with the killing of a 48-year-old man by a stranger on a Sunday morning Q prepare and a mass shooting on a rush-hour N — and other violent crimes have helped gasoline some New Yorkers’ issues about whether or not the subway is protected, complicating transit officers’ efforts to deliver ridership again to prepandemic ranges.
Shootings within the subway final yr included one involving a 34-year-old man who was shot early on a Saturday in January on a transferring prepare in Decrease Manhattan and one other during which a Queens man was charged with criminal possession of a weapon after, the police mentioned, he fired two photographs at a homeless man who was making an attempt to rob a lady at a Manhattan station.
Final month, a 45-year-old father and grandfather who labored as a crossing guard was fatally shot aboard a No. 3 train in Brooklyn after intervening in a dispute between two different passengers over loud music within the automotive, the police mentioned.
Talking on the information convention on Monday, Janno Lieber, the chief govt of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, credited Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams for “doing everything possible to get guns off the streets.”
Nonetheless, Mr. Lieber mentioned, “New York’s heart breaks when people who are headed home and kids are coming home from school to do their homework and they’re subjected to random acts of violence like what occurred here late this afternoon.”
