Authorities say that an argument broke out between rival groups of teenagers at a New York City subway station Monday, killing one person and wounding five more. The incident was said to have happened right at the beginning of the evening rush hour, around 4:30 pm, US time, on an above-ground train platform in the Bronx.
Many children would have been coming home from school at the time, and others who work would have been on their way home for the evening rush, as the stations are full.
Police said one man, 34, was reported dead.
Injured were a 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy, and three adults : ages 28, 29, and 71. Some attended to the dispute; others were there waiting for the train. Four of them were seriously injured.
At a news conference, the NYPD’s chief of transit, Michael Kemper, said, “This incident today occurred as a result of two groups that started fighting while on a train.”
According to the triangle, Kemper declared that the train had just entered the station when the gunfire went off, hitting people on the platform.
“The doors opened up and at least one of the individuals in that group, or in the two groups, took out a gun and fired shots,” he added. “People started running off the train onto the platform and more shots were fired on the platform.”
At least one shooter fled and was being sought.
Efrain Feliciano, 61, a witness, related to the Daily News: “There were at least six shots…I saw sparkles as the bullets hit the wall. A woman was holding a child screaming.”
Television news helicopters showed video of a subway train stopped at the station and orange evidence cones on the platform, which was three stops north of Yankee Stadium. Police investigated, but trains were still running through the station on an express track.
Fear of violence on the subway system spiked following a string of recent years’ incidents, but crime in New York City actually has been in free fall since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
citywide, the number of people shot dropped 39 percent last year over 2022.
Killings on the subway system fell from 10 to 5 last year.
As Mayor Eric Adams told 1010 Wins radio, “Not only people must be actually safe, but what we have done in lowering crime, they must feel safe, and something like this can send shockwaves throughout our entire system.”
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