Frank James, the man suspected of shooting Tuesday at a New York subway train in the morning at rush hour, injuring 30 including 10 by gunfire, according to justice, was jailed in custody Thursday, charged of “sowed terror throughout the city.”.
Wearing a loose khaki shirt, the suspect, a 62-year-old African-American arrested the previous day without street protest in Manhattan, appeared for the first time in federal court in Brooklyn.
In silence, sometimes taking notes between his two lawyers, he listened to the allegations against him, especially theterrorist attacks which puts him in danger of life in prison. Judge Roanne Mann ordered his imprisonment.
He fired bullets at passengers on a crowded subway train, disrupting their morning commute in a way this city has not seen in over 20 yearssaid prosecutor Sara Winik, in reference to the deadly attacks on September 11, 2001 that permanently traumatized New York.
The suspect was wearing a gas mask and placed two smoke devices, the train was filled with smoke before firing. The prosecution changed the balance upwards, bringing it to 30 injured, including 10 by gunfire, against 23 initially.
His attack was planned, it was carefully planned and it struck fear into the victims and the entire city.added the prosecutor.
If this bloody attack, was made at a busy station in south Brooklyn, 36th Streetdid not kill, it caused intense emotion in the megalopolis of nearly 9 million inhabitants, which has been affected by increasing crime and poaching since the COVID-19 pandemic.
A dozen shootings and four murders
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, New York police documented at least 14 separate shootings and shootings, including Brooklyn and the Bronx, and four homicides.
Frank James’ attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg warned everyone quick judgment of his client, has been arrested 12 times in the past for various offenses.
Yesterday Mr James saw his picture on the news, he called the police for help, he said where he washe says.
Police tracked down Frank James primarily thanks to the key of a van he rented, which was discovered at the crime scene. The guy has a YouTube page, called propetaoftruth88 (prophet of truth) where he was seen launching long, sometimes tumultuous and erratic scandals about racial issues and insecurity in New York City.
The circumstances in which the suspect was arrested on Tuesday in the district ofEastern Village is not fully clarified. In addition to the suspect himself, individuals reported his presence on the phone platform Crime Stoppers of New York police, who put on the table a $ 50,000 reward for this case.
So, a 21-year-old Syrian technician, Zack Tahhan, who has lived in the United States for five years, has become a star of social networks, where the hashtag has spread. #ThankYouZack, after claiming he saw Frank James and informed police, near the scene of the arrest.
But Francisco Puebla, the Mexican manager of Saifee, a garden store in the same area, saidAFP that it was his intervention, and not that of Zack Tahhan, that was decisive.
According to police, there was actually a report where the suspect was found at a McDonald’s. Officials arrived at McDonald’s. He was not there. They drove around the hood, they saw it at the corner of Saint Marks [Place] and First avenue and arrested himsaid Wednesday by a New York police officer, John Miller.
Source: Radio-Canada