GUILTY NY - Frank James, Brooklyn Subway Shooter, Multi Victims, Undetonated Devices Fnd, Apr'22 - *Arrest*

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Live updates: Brooklyn subway shooting suspect at large after 10 people were shot

'Sounded like fireworks': Witness describes when subway shooting started02:33

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Suspect at large after 10 shot at Brooklyn subway station
By Melissa Macaya, Maureen Chowdhury, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Mike Hayes and Veronica Rocha, CNN

Updated 8:13 p.m. ET, April 12, 2022

a Brooklyn subway station this morning, officials said. At least 29 people were treated at nearby hospitals for injuries, none of which were life-threatening, according to hospital representatives.
  • The suspect: Authorities said the suspect, who remains at large, put on a gas mask, deployed a gas canister and then began shooting. The NYPD says they are currently seeking a "person of interest" in the shooting.
  • The investigation: The attack is not being investigated as an act of terrorism but authorities have not ruled anything out, the NYPD commissioner said. Investigators have cell phone video from an eyewitness that shows the suspect, sources say, and a U-Haul cargo van "connected with" the shooting has been located in Brooklyn along with a credit card that identified the suspect.
 
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I've been in a panic all day. My 17-year old granddaughter and her boyfriend had tickets for a show tonight in Times Square. She had to take the subway to get there, which is terrifying today, and then of course the trains were all suspended, diverted or delayed.

I'm a lifelong New Yorker. It's feeling like the 70s around here again. Of course back then we didn't think of terrorism, but the crime was high.

I thought at first this was a terrorist attack but it is starting to look more like this POI has some mental health issues. I see the police are being circumspect about calling him a POI instead of a suspect; as of now they'll only say he rented the van. Also, where the van was found on Kings Highway is a neighborhood where I have several friends and I'm there a lot. Apparently he entered the subway at Kings Highway as well. That's a very busy commercial street, but the surrounding neighborhood is residential and quiet.

It may be feasible to have a cop at every station, but it isn't feasible to have one on every train car. This attack took place within the car itself so an officer wouldn't have been able to stop it, but an officer on the platform would have had a much better chance of apprehending the suspect right away.

Praying that all the wounded heal. Thank God no one seems to have life-threatening injuries.

ETA: in the double photo released by the NYPD, IMO he looks so different in each picture. Maybe older and slimmer in the second picture, but to me his ears look different in each picture. So does his skin tone.
I imagine it's the lighting and the angle but if I were to spot him I'd have trouble recognizing if it was indeed him because he just looks too different IMO. The first pic looks like it may be a mug shot? I'm not sure.
 

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zecats said:
I had to text my son this morning to make sure he got to work ok after reading about this. (He did and is fine). He travels on LIRR to Brooklyn station and takes subway to lower Manhattan and would have been traveling around this time.
**Feels like I have to check on both my kids and their spouses regularly as all 4 work in NYC (between subway attacks and sidewalk attacks). :(:oops:
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Wow I’m so glad everything is ok with ur son
 
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Tiff23fr said:
POI’s YouTube Channel. He refers to himself as “The Prophet of Doom”

This one is titled “Stop One Complete”.
Seems he was possibly moving or something and staying in hotels. He talks about having PTSD.

ETA: Trigger warning’s, profanity and racial language.


Frank R. James: Social Media Posts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ties | Heavy.com
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Wow...what an unhinged diatribe...vacillating between talking about Putin, about racial issues he has, about some woman he knows who he thinks should be dead because he despises her, about what hotels he will stay in....just off the wall and very frightening. A lot of rage and now we see where that led.

Thanks for posting it, @Tiff23fr.

To whom was he speaking? A YouTube channel? Does he have followers? I don't even want to look.
 
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Arkay said:
Wow...what an unhinged diatribe...vacillating between talking about Putin, about racial issues he has, about some woman he knows who he thinks should be dead because he despises her, about what hotels he will stay in....just off the wall and very frightening. A lot of rage and now we see where that led.

Thanks for posting it, @Tiff23fr.

To whom was he speaking? A YouTube channel? Does he have followers? I don't even want to look.
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A YouTube Channel. He has just over 900 followers. There are several videos, and the perspective of things discussed are clearly associated with some anger. Bouncing across multiple topics appeared common in the few I scanned.

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Frank James — who warned last month that he was “entering the danger zone” — rented a U-Haul van tied to the N train attack in Sunset Park and is being sought for questioning, police said at an evening briefing.

“Mr. Mayor, I’m a victim of your mental health program,” James said in one lengthy video.

“I’m 63 now full of hate, full of anger, and full of bitterness.”

He also criticized the mayor for not doing more to combat homelessness.

“Eric Adams, Eric Adams: What are you doing brother? What’s happening with this homeless situation,” he said while referring to the subway. “Every car I went to was loaded with homeless people. It was so bad I couldn’t even stand. I had to keep moving from car to car.”

Frank R. James ID'd as person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting
 
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ZoriahNZ said:
That's interesting considering that this year 1000 more cops were added to the Subway as part of the mayor's "omnipresence" strategy.

From Jan:
Number of NYC cops on subways hits another record under Mayor Adams ‘omnipresence’ deployment | amNewYork

I guess there's still a lot of work to be done. Is having police stationed at every major stop even feasible?
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In my experience, you want the cops to be riding between stations and going in between cars. Issues during the day happen in the cars--petty theft, fights etc with little happening on the platforms especially at rush hour. Early morning and late at night is when you would want to have cops on the platforms. The people in the booths (if they are in a booth) don't do anything anymore.......no real ticket sales, no helping out in a crisis.
 
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ZoriahNZ said:
I guess there's still a lot of work to be done. Is having police stationed at every major stop even feasible?
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Though I am a NYC tourist and not a New Yorker, I would say "yes", it is feasible to have police presence at every station.

But..... A good many of the stations are large, with a notable number being huge. Thus, it may not be feasible to have a meaningful police presence everywhere in all stations.
 
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I hope that LEO finds this guy soon.
 
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Oddly some of this guys youtubes are still up. A friend sent us links.

Now they can't find him?
 
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https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/nypd-name-frank-r-james-as-suspect-in-subway-shooting

NYPD names Frank R. James as 'suspect' in subway shooting




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There is a link between Wisconsin and the person of interest in Tuesday morning's subway shooting in Brooklyn, New York.

By: TMJ4 Web Staff
Posted at 8:19 AM, Apr 13, 2022

and last updated 9:23 AM, Apr 13, 2022
NEW YORK — Frank R. James, who was named as a person of interest in Tuesday's subway shooting in Brooklyn, NY, and who has an address in Wisconsin, has now been named a suspect.

The New York Police Department shared the news Wednesday saying, "Frank Robert James fired numerous gunshots inside an "N" line subway car at 36th St & 4th Ave subway station causing serious injuries to 10 people."


Police had officially only called James a person of interest as of Tuesday. However, in their tweet, Wednesday NYPD shared several surveillance images of James in the subway station.

James' last known address was on Milwaukee's north side. A sign posted on the mailbox showed his name and requested mail be forwarded to a P.O. box.
 
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NYC police name suspect in Brooklyn subway shooting

Other items discovered at the scene of the shooting include the Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun used in the attack, three extended magazines, a hatchet, gasoline, four smoke grenades and a bag of consumer-grade fireworks. The gun was not stolen, according to police. Investigators are sifting through evidence looking for any possible fingerprints on the gun and the other recovered items.

Service resumed at the 36th Street subway station in Sunset Park on Wednesday morning, after police concluded their investigation there.

The bloodshed came amid a surge in crime within New York City's transit system. The mayor said he has already doubled the number of police officers patrolling the city's subway stations and is also considering installing special metal detectors in the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

Anyone with information, videos or photos related to the shooting is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
 
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April 13 2022
Brooklyn Subway Shooting Live Updates: Search for Suspect Continues - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
''Millions of New Yorkers returned to their commutes on Wednesday in a city gripped with unease, as a gunman remained at large after shooting 10 people on a Brooklyn subway train during the morning rush hour the day before.

Mayor Eric Adams identified Frank R. James, 62, as a suspect on Wednesday in the mass shooting, one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the subway in recent history. Authorities said that people should call with any information they had on Mr. James, who had previously been deemed a “person of interest.”

The shooting will likely complicate recent efforts by Mr. Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to convince people that the subways are safe, after months in which a spate of high-profile attacks on the system have hindered efforts to recover ridership that fell at the start of the pandemic.''

''Mr. James has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, and the authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for his capture. He appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years in which he expressed a range of harshly bigoted views and criticized the policies of New York City’s mayor, Mr. Adams.''
 
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Police found the U-Haul in the Brooklyn section of Gravesend, and Kings Highway Station (where he apparently entered the subway) is located there. Most likely this means he left the van there before entering and could only have escaped the 36th St Station on foot. Hopefully some video can capture his escape route and lead to his location.

I would even be searching the subways themselves as he made a point to complain about homeless people riding over and over. JMO

NYC subway shooting updates: Police name person of interest in investigation
 
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Is this NYC subway shooter? Grainy footage appears to show gunman in construction gear | Daily Mail Online

New surveillance footage has emerged that is believed to show subway shooting suspect Frank James dressed in a construction jacket, wearing a hard hat and mask, wheeling a bag and carrying a backpack moments before the Brooklyn attack he is believed to have carried out.
The footage was obtained by CBS on Wednesday morning as James, 62, remained at-large. It shows him walking slowly down a street in Brooklyn, wheeling a bag behind him and carrying a backpack in the other hand. He is wearing an orange construction vest.
It has now emerged that he was known to the FBI and was questioned in 2019 in New Mexico though it is not yet clear why. He was cleared but was entered into the state's 'Guardian Lead' system.
The Guardian Program is the bureau's terrorist threat and suspicious incident tracking system.

Since law enforcement have labeled this man as a suspect, it sounds like they're certain that they have the right perpetrator ?

Despite being on the fbi's GL system, he managed to evade attracting attention.
As if someone dropped the ball, so to speak ?

At the same time, the fbi cannot keep continuous tabs on every suspicious person, and if FJ hadn't committed any crimes to date, he was free to move around and live his life.

What good did attacking innocent people he most likely didn't know advance his grievance against the homeless situation in NYC ?

Again as I've said before, it was cowardly.

This violent act has not been described as a terrorist attack ; yet the suspect's actions were certainly an act of lone terror.

It's unfortunate that the subway cameras were not working.
Hopefully that's been rectified by now ?
My opinion.
 
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