Brooklyn subway shooting: Suspect Frank James is in custody, set to appear in court Thursday

“Like all New Yorkers, I’m deeply grateful that the suspect in yesterday’s subway taking pictures has been apprehended and grateful for legislation enforcement and each first responder whose heroic efforts helped New York Metropolis reply to this horrific incident,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated Wednesday. “My coronary heart is with all those that are injured, their family members, and your complete Sundown Park group.”

CNN has reached out to James’ federal defender for remark.

Taking pictures started en path to station

The gunman fired no less than 33 instances and struck 10 individuals, in line with NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig. Officers have stated not one of the accidents gave the impression to be life-threatening.

James initially received on the subway’s N practice on the Kings Freeway Station at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Essig stated.

The taking pictures began about 20 seconds after the practice left the 59th Road station and felt prefer it lasted for practically two minutes, Benkada stated.

After allegedly opening fireplace on the practice, James received off on the thirty sixth Road station, boarded an R practice throughout the platform and rode to the twenty fifth Road station cease, Essig stated.

Lower than an hour later, he was noticed boarding the subway on the seventh Avenue and ninth Road station, about 1.5 miles away, Essig added.

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Proof pointed investigators to James, officers say

Authorities on the scene discovered a Glock 9 mm handgun, three prolonged magazines, two detonated smoke grenades, two non-detonated smoke grenades, a hatchet and keys to a U-Haul van, Essig stated.

The gun discovered on the scene was bought by James in Ohio in 2011, in line with Essig. A bank card that was used to hire the U-Haul was additionally discovered, two legislation enforcement sources informed CNN. Two officers informed CNN they consider the gun jammed in the course of the taking pictures.

The U-Haul van was rented by James, police stated, and was recovered by police close to the Kings Freeway station after being cleared by the NYPD’s bomb squad.

Surveillance video confirmed James leaving the van Tuesday morning, in line with a prison grievance.

A neon building jacket, which had been discarded on the subway platform, had a receipt for a storage unit in Philadelphia registered to James, the grievance states.

Federal prosecutors consider he visited the storage facility stuffed with ammunition and extra weapons the night earlier than the Tuesday assault, in line with courtroom paperwork. A search of the storage facility revealed further ammunition and “a threaded 9mm pistol barrel that enables for a silencer or suppresser to be connected.”

In keeping with the grievance, legislation enforcement executed a search warrant at a Philadelphia house authorities consider James rented for 15 days starting round March 28 and located “an empty journal for a Glock handgun, a taser, a high-capacity rifle journal and a blue smoke canister.”

Investigators didn’t discover some other weapons or explosives within the van, two legislation enforcement officers stated. The officers stated it appeared James might have slept within the automobile. They stated a license plate reader detected the van driving over the Verrazzano Bridge from Staten Island into Brooklyn round 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Authorities additionally tracked the acquisition of a gasoline masks to James via an eBay account, two officers stated.