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COURIER LIFE, APRIL 15-21, 2022
BY BEN BRACHFELD
& KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
The morning rush through
Sunset Park was violently disrupted
on Tuesday morning
when shots rang out at the 36th
Street Subway station, injuring
at least 23 people, according to
police.
Cops cordoned off the station’s
entrance and closed part
of Fourth Avenue to traffi c as
police, fi refi ghters, and federal
agents fl ooded the scene after the
early-morning incident. The station
was fi lled with smoke from
what offi cials said was a detonated
smoke grenade.
Police later said they were
searching for 62-year-old Frank
R. James in relation to the attack.
James is accused of fi ring
33 gunshots after setting off
smoke grenades on a Manhattanbound
N train. The NYPD identifi
ed James, who has addresses in
Philadelphia and Wisconsin, as
a person-of-interest after fi nding
keys to a U-Haul van and a credit
card in James’ name, which had
recently been used to rent the
van in Philadelphia. Cops later
found the van on Kings Highway
at West 4th Street in Gravesend,
and apprehended James — who
reportedly donned an orange
construction vest and gas mask
during the attack — on April 13
in the East Village after a morethan
24-hour manhunt.
Police Commissioner Keechant
Sewell said that James had made a
number of social media postings of
late on “general topics of concern,”
including rants about Mayor Eric
Adams, New York City, and homeless
people. Sewell added that the
mayor’s security had been beefed
up in response.
The attack has had a chilling
effect on tight-knit Sunset Park.
Carina and Veronica Rosales,
students who live nearby and attend
college in the city, were getting
coffee when they saw the
street erupt in chaos.
“We just heard helicopters fl ying
around and then people told
us what happened,” Veronica
told Brooklyn Paper. “Out of nowhere,
in one split second things
can change so quickly.”
The shooting was “a shock,”
Carina added, because the neighborhood
is usually very quiet.
“We called our mother right
away to make sure she’s OK because
she usually takes the train
around this time,” Veronica said.
Some local schools, including
Sunset Park High School,
directly across the street from
the subway station, were on
lockdown following the incident
which spread about a mile in
each direction until around dismissal.
First responders found several
undetonated devices at the
station, according to the city’s
Fire Department, but NYPD
later said there were no active
explosives at the site.
“I think it makes us more
aware of our surroundings,” Veronica
said. “It was somebody
with a MTA vest, that makes us
more cautious to see who are we
surrounded with.”
Offi cials continue to investigate a
shooting in the 36th Street subway station
on April 12, believed to be carried
out by suspect Frank James (at left being
walked out of the 9th Precinct).
Photo by Paul Frangipane, inset by Dean Moses
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