that appears to be the case. they have stabilized the area here in brooklyn. we don t know in what direction he went. police further say this man was wearing a gas mask, had some sort of book bag and wearing a construction vest. it was not an mta uniform but it was a construction vest that was orange. that is all that we ve been told about this particular suspect. we know that a press conference is going to happen at any moment but we also know this all started essentially, we were told, at 25th street which is one station below here. and then the train pulled up into 36th street and that s when you saw people coming out of the train with smoke billowing from inside that train car. people with injuries. we know at least 13 people are injured. at least 5 people shot. 8 people are in stable condition. that s the update from what we understand from the victims perspective.
there was just a lot of commotion. so then from that moment i can t remember how long it took. everything feels longer when it s actually than it actually is. so we re at the end of the plat form where there is no exit. we re at the front of the train. the exit at the back of the train. mta employee told us to get on the train. everyone needs to get onto the r train. they evacuated the n train onto the r train and closed the doors and took us to 25th street for safety. then i was listening to people on the train. some people were talking about. one woman was on the train that was getting where the shooting happened. we get to the 25th street and evacuate the train and then realize there are a bunch of people on the train with us who have been injured. so we start trying to get everybody into the same car and clear that car out so there was
this started 24th or 25th street subway station. the n line here in new york, the yellow subway line heading toward brooklyn or out towards the brooklyn train. and then 35th street and 4th avenue in that neighborhood there was a call for smoke on the dnr line station. upon arrival they discovered multiple people were shot and several undetonated devices as has been reported. i will say that at this point even though we have seen the images of some of these injuries of what look like some blood on the subway station, from what we can tell we don t have an update on the condition of the people that were shot. we do know that the local tv station are reporting that six people were shot. we can t verify that. it is important to say it is happening at a time which the
they imposed on the country. a manhunt is under way for a gunman who threw smoke grenades and opened fire on a new york subway train during rush hour. 17 people were injured ten of whom were shot. nada tawfik sent this report from new york. in an instant, the rush of the morning commute turned into a race to safety. on this subway car, new yorkers went to a state of shock after a man wearing a green construction vest, a hooded sweatshirt, and a gas mask detonated a smoke bomb, then began opening fire. the attacker fled the scene to the sounds of people s screams, and the sight of some collapsing on the platform, bloodied and wounded. at 25th street, we were all told to get off. there was people screaming for medical assistance. it was just a scary moment, everyone was packed together. and i didn t know what happened till after. i saw a lot of people coming
this was clearly a stunned the scene. this video shows the extent to which we still do not know what happened in those minutes before the subway pulled into the station here in brooklyn. chris? vaughn hillyard, thank you for that. i want to go to pete williams. pete, i understand you have new information. let me give you the best impression of what we think happened here. 8:26. i m just going to show you this map of the subway line. we are looking at the n line. that s the yellow line on your screen. you see the two stations in question are the ones out 36th and then i m going to refer to the one and 25th straight. 36th street and 25th street. the understanding is that before the train was northbound, the shooting starts on the train when it s in the 36th street station. before it pulls into the 25th street station, that is when