{"id":1488291,"date":"2022-05-23T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488291"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:15:43","slug":"gunman-shoots-passenger-dead-on-new-york-city-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunman-shoots-passenger-dead-on-new-york-city-subway\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman Shoots Passenger Dead on New York City Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgunman-shoots-passenger-dead-on-new-york-city-subway%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>By Dan Whitcomb<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014A 48-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest while riding on a New York City<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0subway\u00a0<\/span>car on Sunday in the latest in a series of random attacks in the city&#8217;s transit system.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified gunman fled when the train pulled into the next station, in Manhattan, and remained at large on Sunday night, Kenneth Corey, NYPD&#8217;s chief of department, said at a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary investigation reveals the suspect was walking back and forth in the same train car and, without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired it at the victim at close range as the train was crossing the Manhattan Bridge,&#8221; Corey said.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, described only as a heavy-set, &#8220;dark-skinned&#8221; man with a beard who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, gray sweat pants and white sneakers, fled when the train pulled into the Canal Street station.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect and the victim were not acquainted and had not interacted prior to the gunfire, police said. The victim, who was not identified by police, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital shortly after the 11:40 a.m. shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart breaks for the victim&#8217;s family. Everyone deserves to feel safe on our<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0subway<\/span>s. I\u2019ll keep fighting to make that a reality,&#8221; New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>New York City has seen a sharp rise in violence and a series of random attacks on<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0subway\u00a0<\/span>riders.<\/p>\n<p>The transit violence has included passengers pushed onto the tracks from platforms, including a Manhattan woman whose murder was seen as part of a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>On April 12, a gunman set off smoke bombs and opened fire in a<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0subway\u00a0<\/span>car, wounding more than 20 people. A suspect was taken into custody the following day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty harrowing stuff,&#8221; rider Arsenault Rivera told the New York Times. &#8220;If I&#8217;d gotten on at a different point, I would have been right there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Paul Simao)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters)\u2014A 48-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest while riding on a New York City\u00a0subway\u00a0car on Sunday in the latest in a series of random attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}