One person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting at the Mount Eden Avenue subway station in the Bronx on Monday, police said.
Kaz Daughtry, the police department's deputy chief of operations, wrote that the shooting was an isolated incident. social media posts On Monday night, it added: “There is no ongoing threat.”
said Fabian Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams. I have written On social media, the mayor said he had been briefed on the shooting and “I do not believe this was a random attack.”
Governor Kathy Hochul wrote on social media She claimed to have directed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that operates the subway, to assist police in their investigation.
Transportation officials said the No. 4 train was detouring around the station in both directions while police investigated, and the northbound No. 4 train also detoured through several nearby stations.
Shootings in New York City continue to decline after spiking during the coronavirus pandemic, police department data shows. There were 974 shootings in the city last year, a 25% decrease from 2022, according to police department data.
Felony incidents in New York's transit system make up a small portion of the city's overall crime rate, and you are statistically less likely to be the victim of a crime on the subway. An October New York Times analysis estimated the system's violent crime rate to be about 1.8 per 1 million rides.
Shootings on city subways and buses are rare. Last year, the Police Traffic Bureau reported five shooting incidents as of Nov. 26, compared to nine for the same period in 2022.
However, several mass shootings in 2022, including the murder of a 48-year-old man by a stranger on the Q train on Sunday morning and the mass shooting on the N train during rush hour, and other violent crimes within the system. has contributed to fueling some new crimes. Yorkers are concerned about whether the subway is safe.
