Five people who provided “critical information” that helped arrest the man accused of this week’s mass shooting on the New York subway will share a $ 50,000 reward, police said.
The suspect, wearing a gas mask, filled a crowded subway car traveling through Brooklyn with thick black smoke from a box and opened fire last Tuesday on passengers at rush hour, injuring more than 20, including 10 with gunshot wounds.
Frank James, the man accused of carrying out one of the most violent attacks on the city’s public transportation system, was arrested in Manhattan’s East Village on Wednesday after a 30-hour search backed by numerous public councils.
James, 62, also called the police hotline to surrender, helping with his own capture, according to his lawyers.
“We appreciate all those who responded to our call for information to find this suspect, including all those whose advice was not received,” said City Police Commissioner Kichant Sewell.
She added: “We called on the public to join us in our efforts to find this suspect, and New Yorkers have stepped up.
James, 62, is accused of injuring 30 people by dropping smoke bombs and spraying the interior of a subway car with a shotgun. No one was killed, but injured passengers boarded the platform and collapsed, while other members of the community, and then the first responders, rushed to the rescue after the train stopped at the station.
Other passengers fled the subway station, and police and investigators stormed the area in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood.
All the wounded were expected to survive. About 20 others were injured in smokestacks or when passengers collided, prosecutors said.
New York City police said her detectives used the flow of public councils to build a timeline of events that helped them find James. Of the people who gave advice, five were selected whose “information contributed directly” to the arrest of the suspect.
New York City Police have not identified the five people who will share the prize, which consists of funds from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Local Transport Workers’ Local 100 and the New York Police Foundation.
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