The police confirmed it as a suicide because a note was found next to his body. According to sources, the deceased was in depression and was on a sick leave for few days.
in the station but there may be some images of him as police have as they are trying to get a line who the shooter is. we have not had an incident like this in a long time in new york city. but in 2020, a homeless man set a garbage can on fire in a subway car and that killed the motor man of that subway. in 2017, isis plot to bomb the subways. a pipe bomb went off in a subway corridor, and of course we have the incidents of subway gunman bernhardt getz in 1985, and the colin ferguson shooting on the long island railroad, that is seen as a racial incident. police saying in this case the victims are of different racial and ethnic group, so does not seem to be a specific targeted group on this, and not calling it terrorism, clearly they are treating this as a mentally ill
local reports say there was some type of smoke device that went off and then the shooting occurred. obviously not trying to speculate in terms of the motive. this is not the first time this has happened in the new york city subway. in 2017 an isis-related bombing suspect was convicted of a plot to bomb the subway. in february of last year there was a conductor, motor man on a subway in manhattan who burned to death when someone lit a garbage canister on fire inside the new york city subway. and a number of years ago a man passenger on the subway had a gallon of gasoline. gasoline is not allowed in the underground in the new york city subway and that gasoline spilled and if memory serves me right it was a very dangerous situation where there was also a fire. so we don t know the motive or cause of this especially in
subway train here in new york over the weekend. but thanks to her hero subway worker, she lived to tell about it. it happened on saturday morning. the woman, as the story goes, stumbled right on to the tracks just a few hundred feet in front of an oncoming train. people on the platform immediately tried to signal the motor man but he was all over it. i actually watched her go off the platform so that s, you know, i didn t even need anybody to wave or, you know, get my attention. i knew that i had to stop the train. shepard: and he did. just 70 feet from where the woman was lying. he says she was bleeding but very much alive. the photo on the front page of the daily news said it all. but as for the motors man, well, he said he was just doing his job. well, police caught our paris hilton with some cocaine in a purse over the weekend but the hotel heiress has an explanation. las vegas police say they pulled over hilton s boyfriend, the club mogul cy wats on the left