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COURIER LIFE, APRIL 15-21, 2022
BY BEN BRACHFELD
Gov. Kathy Hochul visited
victims of the Sunset
Park subway attack the
night of April 12, aiming
to bring a sense of security
to the victims and to
Brooklynites even as the
suspected perpetrator remained
at large overnight.
A total of 23 people were
injured that morning after
a man donning a gas mask
detonated a smoke grenade
on a Manhattan-bound N
train pulling into the 36th
Street station, and fi red 33
shots within the subway
car as it fi lled with smoke.
The NYPD on Tuesday
identifi ed 62-year-old
Frank R. James as the
prime suspect. James, who
had previously posted concerning
videos online ranting
about Mayor Eric Adams
and his homelessness
policies, was apprehended
in the East Village more
than 24 hours after the attack.
James was apprehended
Wednesday after a
massive manhunt.
Thankfully, no victims
sustained life-threatening
injuries, thanks to quick
thinking by heroic transit
workers who hastily
moved to evacuate passengers
from the station on a
Manhattan-bound R train.
Reports say James’ gun
may also have jammed after
fi ring 33 rounds from
an extended magazine.
Ten of the injured passengers
sustained gunshot
wounds, while others suffered
from smoke inhalation.
Hochul on Tuesday
night visited Maimonides
Medical Center, where four
injured teens are laid up,
and said she had visited
with an 18-year-old college
student recovering.
“He was on his way to
school, and he was awaiting
his surgery on an injury.
It was either a bullet
wound, or a shrapnel
wound,” Hochul told reporters
outside the hospital.
“I had a chance to talk
to the doctors about his
condition, but he was able
to communicate with me.
He seems to be doing well
and he’s in very good spirits,
as well as his mother
and grandmother who are
there as well.”
Hochul also visited with
a woman whose 16-year-old
son was shot in the thumb,
sustaining a “devastating”
injury and requiring surgery
on his hand.
Gov. Kathy Hochul visits patients at Maimonides injured in the Sunset Park subway attack on April 12,
along with MTA Chair Janno Lieber and Maimonides CEO Ken Gibbs. Marc A. Hermann / MTA
“His mother does not
speak English, she is Chinese,
she is there alone.
And it was so sad to hear
her through a translator
talk about her anxiety,” Hochul
said. “All she has is
her son and it’s just the two
of them. And she does not
know what she’s going to
do when she leaves. So I had
a long hug with her and let
her know that we send the
love of all New Yorkers.”
The governor — whose
campaign is in a fl ux of
sorts after the arrest and
resignation Tuesday of
Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin
— rode the subway
with MTA Chair Janno
Lieber to the hospital, in a
show of the city’s resolve,
and the resolve of its great
artery, the subway system.
“I took the subway over
here, earlier this evening
with Janno to let New
Yorkers know we appreciate
their resiliency, how
tough they are, but they
still keep coming on this
subway,” she said. “And I
was really grateful to see
that New Yorkers could not
be kept down. There was
testament to that today,
we saw that on our subway
rides.”
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Hochul visits subway
attack victims at Maimo
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