NEW YORK (AP) — A person wished in an apparently unprovoked fatal shooting aboard a New York Metropolis subway practice surrendered to police on Tuesday, hours after authorities posted his title and picture on social media and implored the general public to assist discover him.
Andrew Abdullah, 25, turned himself in at a Manhattan precinct to face fees within the loss of life of 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez.
Enriquez was shot to loss of life whereas heading to brunch Sunday morning, about six weeks after 10 individuals had been shot in an attack on another subway train.
Enriquez’s sister Griselda Vile implored the town Tuesday to deal with crime extra successfully.
“I’m pleading that this not occur to a different New Yorker,” she told Fox News. “I don’t need my brother simply to be a passing title within the media, a passing title in our normalcy post-pandemic.”
Earlier Tuesday, the police division tweeted a photograph of Abdullah, 25, and asked the public for help discovering him.
Court docket data present Abdullah has two open prison circumstances in New York Metropolis, one in Brooklyn stemming from an April 24 automobile theft and the opposite for an alleged assault in Manhattan in 2020.
Messages in search of remark had been left with attorneys representing him in these circumstances.
Police had earlier requested for the general public’s assist in figuring out the gunman, tweeting out surveillance pictures of a burly man wearing a hoodie on a scorching day.
“We want all eyes on this,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted.
Police stated witnesses reported that the gunman was pacing the final automotive of a Q line practice heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan, pulled out a gun and fired at Enriquez at shut vary. The shooter fled after the practice arrived at Manhattan’s Canal Avenue.
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Enriquez labored for the worldwide funding analysis division at Goldman Sachs, the place CEO David Solomon known as him a devoted and beloved worker who “epitomized our tradition of collaboration and excellence.”
A toddler of Mexican American mother and father, Enriquez spent his early childhood in Brooklyn earlier than his household moved to California after which to Seattle, his companion, Adam Pollack, told the New York Post. Vile stated each strikes had been prompted by violence within the household’s neighborhoods in New York and Southern California.
Enriquez returned to New York Metropolis within the mid-Nineties to pursue a grasp’s diploma in Latin American research at New York College. His yen for studying didn’t cease there — throughout the coronavirus pandemic, he discovered to play the guitar and to talk Portuguese and Italian, his household and companion stated.
“He was continually in self-improvement mode,” brother-in-law Glenn Vile advised Fox Information.
The eldest of 5 youngsters, Enriquez appeared out for his siblings and oldsters, his sister stated. Nearly an hour earlier than he was killed, Enriquez texted his siblings to advise them to test on their mother and father, who’ve well being issues, she stated.
The seemingly random capturing additional shook a metropolis already on edge about public security. Many varieties of crime have rebounded after dipping dramatically earlier within the pandemic when individuals had been staying house. And concern about crime has soared.
Within the first 5 months of 2022, the variety of shootings within the metropolis dropped barely over the identical interval a yr earlier, and the variety of murders is down 12% thus far over final yr. However New York remains to be on tempo to have its second-highest variety of homicides since 2011, after almost a decade of file lows.
By way of violent crime, the town stays considerably safer now than it was throughout the Seventies, ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s.
Crime is now metropolis voters’ prime concern by far, in keeping with a Quinnipiac College ballot launched this month. It surveyed 1,249 registered metropolis voters and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 proportion factors.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who campaigned on guarantees to make the town safer, stated his administration will consider how it’s deploying officers throughout the sprawling subway system.
There have been no cops on the practice automotive the place Enriquez was shot, Adams stated.
