Police say one person was killed and five others injured in a shooting at a New York subway station on Monday.
A New York City Police Department spokeswoman said no arrests had been made in the shooting, which was reported at the Bronx station around 4:38 p.m., and the circumstances of the five people injured were unknown. Local media reported the incident, citing an anonymous police official. , the five injured reported non-life-threatening injuries.
According to police, the man who died was a man in his 30s. A fire department spokesperson said four of the five injured were seriously injured.
This station is located at the intersection of Mount Eden Avenue and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.
Footage from a television news helicopter showed a subway train stopped at the station and an orange evidence cone on an elevated platform.
The latest data shows crime remains rare in New York’s subways. The metro averages about 3.8 million rides each weekday, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported 570 felony assault incidents in all of 2023.
Shootings are particularly rare. In 2022, a gunman injured 10 people on a train passing through Brooklyn, marking the first mass shooting on a subway since 1984.
Weeks later, a man shot and killed 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez on a Q train in what police said was an unprovoked attack.
Anxiety about how dangerous subways really are rose sharply among riders during the early days of the pandemic, when subway crime rates spiked in early 2020, but returned to normal levels in 2021. Even in the face of fall accidents, passenger awareness of the danger remains high. crime rate.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former city police chief, sought to reassure anxious commuters by increasing the number of police officers at subway stations.
