New York City police have arrested the man wanted in connection to the Brooklyn subway shooting that took place Tuesday.
Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the case said Wednesday that 62-year-old Frank Robert James was apprehended near St. Marks and First Avenue thanks to a Crime Stoppers tip.
James was previously identified as a person of interest in the subway shooting.
Tuesday morning just before 8:30 a.m. gunshots rang out on a Manhattan-bound subway train as it approached the 36th Street station in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park. James reportedly put on a gas mask prior to the shooting and released a smoke canister before firing his gun at least 33 times. The man’s gun jammed at some point during the incident, which police say is the reason lives were saved.
23 people were injured during the attack, 10 of them by gunfire.
