The suspect threw smoke grenades and nonetheless has not been apprehended. From NBC New York:
Police described the suspected shooter as a person about 5 toes 5 inches tall and 180 kilos. He fled the scene and has not been caught. Cops consider he acted alone. A motive is beneath investigation, although the manhunt for the gunman is the highest precedence.
One other element from the NBC New York report:
Among the wounded jumped on one other practice to flee to the subsequent station, sources mentioned.
Video exhibits a practice arriving on the station full of smoke and injured individuals.
NYPD says there aren’t any lively explosive units, pushing again on the preliminary stories.
NYPD stay press convention. All faculties in a one mile radius of the thirty sixth Road station are beneath a shelter-in-place order.
CBS Information correspondent Mola Lenghi mentioned NYPD initially believed there may have been undetonated units all through the subway system, however regulation enforcement haven’t discovered any unexploded units.
New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell says there are ‘no identified explosive units on our subway trains and this isn’t being investigated as an act of terrorism right now.” Sewell moreover mentioned there are ‘no life-threatening accidents right now.’
Sewell stories suspect ‘Donned a gasoline masks. He then took a canister out of his bag, opened it. The practice at the moment started to fill with smoke. He then opened hearth, putting a number of individuals on the subway and on the platform.”
Suspect is described as a Black male, roughly 5’5” with a ‘heavy construct.’ He was sporting a ‘inexperienced construction-type vest’ and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Editor’s be aware: Headline modified to mirror new info on the preliminary stories of ‘undetonated units’