Ongoing. i want to go straight to cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz who is joining us live from the scene. shimon, update us on what you re hearing from your sources about the investigation and more urgently, the manhunt under way right now. so investigators have a lot of key pieces of evidence that they ve been able to recover from the shooting scene. they have that gas canister, the smoke canister that the suspect used. also recovered what they believe is the weapon that was used in this shooting. obviously, they need to do some work to try to firm that up. but they have some key pieces of information and obviously all these witnesses who have suffered just horrific injuries and trauma, running for their lives from this moving subway car where this suspect used this smoke canister, pulled it out of his bag, threw it into the subway car and then started
Here at sunset park, brooklyn, heading toward manhattan, a man took out a gas canister from his bag, unloaded it, the smoke filled up the train as the train arrived to the platform and opened fire on people on the train as well as on that platform. we now know at least 16 people were injured. ten people with gunshot wounds. we had others that had essentially suffered from smoke inhalation as well as shrapnel wounds. we are told it was not from explosive but perhaps grazed bullets. one witness spoke on america s newsroom, and what he said about the chaos and the pandemonium. i saw the individual bleeding out all over the place on the platform, people started rushing towards us, running towards us, one guy is screaming it s not
Brooklyn methodist hospital treating three patients from today s subway attack. one for a gunshot injury, another for a fracture, probably in the melee and the third is nontrauma-related, all three in stable condition. 16 victims, ten gunshots. five in critical condition but i still find it remarkable given the confined area that this gunman was operating in that no one was killed, at least no one has died yet. you are absolutely right and we can thank the good lord no one was killed, think the stampede, the gas canister, the weapons used. but again, thank god no one was killed, and now it s up to the police to get all the information and intelligence they have gathered with regard to the suspect and find him or her as soon as possible. i know people worry about, and i know law enforcement worries
Train and things happen all the time and shrug it off. but in this case, i think there was the panic of the smoke and the sound and as soon as the doors opened up on the platform it was more clear. we were talking about when we think this gunman may have walked off the train. when we listen to the nypd commissioner from the press conference she said specifically the suspect ran off, ran off was her words at the 36th street station when she was describing what was happening, he opened up the gas canister, began shooting. people on the train and on the platform and then he ran off. so he might, you know, she did not get into more details on that, but that would suggest the train that continued to go on to the 25th street station, the next station may have gone on but he may have ran off at that station. we don t know. and i know that there s been a lot of talk about the surveillance cameras reportedly not working at that station.
Sewell came out, she said not terrorism. but then there was a question at the end of how she was so confident and she hedged. i asked commissioner miller for clarity. we don t know who the suspect is. we don t know what the motive is. so, we re not ruling out anything. although they said no terrorism, it seems there s fluidity and they re not ruling anything out. we got updates on numbers. ten people shot, five in critical but stable condition. the suspects themselves opened fire while they were on the train. so, this train was coming into the station and the person went to their backpack, opened up a gas canister, the train filled with smoke and then they opened fire. there was a question of did he stay on the subway? did he go in a subway tunnel?