Brooklyn subway shooting suspect arrested, will be charged with terrorism

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“My fellow New Yorkers, we got him, we got him,” Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed via video link at a news conference Wednesday. “I said to New Yorkers, ‘We want to protect people of this city and apprehend those who want to bring terror to everyday New Yorkers.'”

Officers stopped James after receiving a tip near St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Patrol officers from the 9th Precinct apprehended him without incident, and he will be charged for the Brooklyn shooting. He will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn and faces up to life in prison, according to officials.

The NYPD relied on video and a flood of tips to make the arrest. They recovered a Glock 17 9mm semi-handgun from the subway, two undetonated smoke grenades, fireworks, gasoline, a hatchet, a credit card, and a key to a U-Haul van as key evidence following the rampage. Investigators traced the credit card, the gun, and the key back to James.

“We were able to shrink his world quickly. There was nowhere else left for him to run,” Sewell said.

James had nine prior arrests in New York and three prior arrests in New Jersey before the shooting rampage, including criminal sex acts and burglary. He has ties to Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York City. The gun used in the shooting was purchased in Ohio and traced back to him, authorities noted at the press conference. There is no record of an FBI investigation into him prior to the shooting, officials stressed.

The motivation for the shooting is currently subject to an investigation, and it is not immediately clear whether he was planning any additional attacks. Video obtained by Spectrum News NY1 shows Frank’s arrest.

Witnesses on the trains claimed the shooter was sitting in the back corner of the car, set off the smoke grenade, and then began firing the gun at the passengers. The 29 people who were injured were treated in hospitals and are expected to survive. Investigators believe his firearm jammed, preventing him from continuing to fire, officials said Tuesday.

Prior to Tuesday’s shooting, James posted several conspiratorial videos on YouTube, blasting Mayor Eric Adams, suggesting a race war would soon follow the war in Ukraine, and musing about committing acts of violence.

“I’ve been through a lot of s*** where I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to watch people die right in front of my f***ing face,” he declared in a video days before the attack in reference to people who wronged him. In the video, he emphasized that he did not want to go to jail.

In other videos, he suggested the invasion of Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war that would likely be followed by a race war.

“These white motherf***ers, this is what they do,” he said in a video, according to the New York Post. “Ultimately at the end of the day, they kill and commit genocide against each other. What do you think they gonna do to your black a**?

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Officials did not name the tipster who led them to Frank. Authorities believe James may have called the police on himself, informing them he was located near a McDonald’s, CNN reported. But when police showed up at the location, they did not find him, according to the outlet.

Zack Dahnan, 21, has taken credit for tipping the police off about his whereabouts. Dahnan is an immigrant who speaks five different languages and is a security camera installer, according to New York state Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou.

“He was walking down the street. I told everyone … ‘Yo, that’s the guy from Brooklyn,'” Dahnan explained. “We catched him, thank God.”