Six individuals were shot at a Bronx tube station on Monday, according to New York City police, leaving one person dead and five others injured.
At least 10 shots were fired at the Mount Eden Avenue station after a fight between two groups of teenagers broke out inside a train on Monday evening (local time). Police and witnesses said the shooting created “total pandemonium” inside the police station.
No motive was given for the shooting.
Broadcasters showed a major emergency response at the elevated Mount Eden Avenue subway station in the northern borough of the Bronx, nine miles (14 kilometres) north of Manhattan’s Times Square.
Police detectives and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at the scene conducting a fingerprint search following the shootings.
“We are on scene at an ongoing investigation at the Mount Eden Avenue Station on the (subway) in the Bronx. Please avoid the area… Use alternate routes and expect traffic in the area,” Kaz Daughtry, New York police deputy commissioner for operations, said on social media.
By phone, a New York Police Department official stated that no one had been arrested in connection with the shooting and that it was unclear how the five injured individuals were doing. Five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to local media that cited anonymous police sources.
According to the most recent data, there are just 570 recorded felony assaults on the New York subway system in 2023, out of an average of 3.8 million journeys made on weekdays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Shootings are especially uncommon: in 2022, when a man with a handgun injured 10 people on a train passing through Brooklyn, it was the first mass shooting attack on the subway system since 1984.
A few weeks later, in May 2022, a man shot dead 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez on a Q train in what police said was an unprovoked attack.
Fears of how dangerous the subway really is among passengers jumped early in the pandemic, when the subway crime rate spiked in early 2020, but fell back to normal levels in 2021. Riders’ perceptions of the dangers remain high, even in the face of falling crime rates.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and a former city police captain, has sought to reassure unnerved commuters by increasing the number of police officers in subway stations.
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