A man wearing a construction vest set off a smoke device and opened fire on riders inside a Brooklyn subway car on Tuesday morning, injuring 23 people, according to the authorities.
As the Manhattan-bound N express train pulled into the 36th Street station in Sunset Park at 8:24 a.m., the on-board gunman put on a gas mask, pulled a canister out of his bag that filled the train with smoke, and fired at commuters in the subway car and on the platform, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters during a press conference at the scene Tuesday afternoon, April 12.
Ten people were shot and five are in critical but stable condition at local hospitals, said acting Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh, but none of the wounds were life-threatening, according to NYPD’s Sewell.
