they ve done, and we thank the governor and the mayor for their leadership from covid and from every one of these challenges. so just to reiterate, we re going to be very limited in what we are able to answer in questions. also just to underline our partners here. we have mike regan, the assistant special agent in charge of the joint terrorism for task force for the fbi and nypd. john da vito from atf, who s helping us with tracing efforts and investigation. he s the special agent in charge for new york city. the brooklyngonzales, who is al. and chief ken cory, chief of department and first deputy commissioner at gabon. we ll start off with questions for the police commissioner. was the shooting on the train or the platform? was the suspect on the platform or the train? and did it all happen in the 36th street station or what happened down on 25th street? the suspect was in the train
good afternoon. we re going to update new yorkers about an active shooter incident that took place this morning inside the 36th street subway station on the n line. i want to begin by assuring the public that there are currently no known explosive devices on our subway trains, and this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism at this time. we can also report that although this was a violent incident, reportedly, we have no one with life-threatening injuries as a result of this case. this investigation is only hours old, so please note this information is subject to change. just before 8:24 this morning, as the manhattan-bound n train waited to enter the 36th street station, an individual on that plane donned what appeared to be a gas mask. he then took a canister out of his bag and opened it. the train at that time began to fill with smoke. he then opened fire, striking multiple people on the subway and in the platform. again, we will describe him as an individual.
i m trying to understand what it would have been. we have the report 5 to 7 shot at a brooklyn subway. the 13 to 14 were injured. that s something we want to try to nail down. nyu langone has said five patients brought to them are stable. which is good news. bill: that certainly is. here is the news now if you are just joining us at 10:20 east coast time here. multiple people shot and injured on a subway station in new york city, the bureau of brooklyn that commuters were left bleeding on a platform. initial reporting five people had been shot according to law enforcement sources. another alert that kicked in. see if it s relevant. it isn t. i ll go back to the story from the a.p. fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th street station in brooklyn sunset park neighborhood around 8:30 a.m. they found at least
device actually took place on the subway car, as it was traveling from 5th street to 36th street. so that takes what we thought from initial reports was a very localized scene on the platform of 36th street, and turns it into something that happened, you know, that basically stretches your crime scene out across the entirety of the subway system, almost. in terms of looking for the perpetrator of this attack, right? investigators are now looking at likely video capture at every single subway stop along the n and the r line, in which an individual matching this guy s description could possibly be seen. that is a lot of very hard, logistical work and video analysis. they re, of course, asking all of those sorts of questions to the victims and the witnesses who might have been on the train. they re trying to round up who those people are. we understand that many of them were hustled on to another r
oversees the city subway. they don t have additional details. if you re here in new york listening to this the trains of the d, n and r lines are delayed because of this. bill: we won t share the picture with you but it comes from the new york the post reporting this. a picture of several people, dana. looks like at least three on the ground and they are bleeding with one person getting a tourniquet applied to his right leg and on his cell phone at the same time. this happened on the subway platform. not on the train and not on the street above but actually in the subway down below. another gentleman sprawled out on the tile and it looks like he is reaching for perhaps a bottle of water maybe and there are a few backpacks scattered around and clearly human blood from the injuries they ve