the tip line himself. he faces federal terrorism related charges and will appear in court today. joining me now is a person who witnessed and video taped the arrest. tell me what you saw. i was carrying my laundry over to just the laundromat on 1st avenue and i see a gentleman being handcuffed and so my laundry bag drops and i just pull out my phone and i was i stood there, filming it. and then the noises around were, like, is that him, is that him? we didn t know if it was the guy. suddenly people started coming around and later it was confirmed that it was the shooter. it was quite a shock thing for a neighborhood like the east village because just the yesterday morning my sister called, she was in europe, she said, are you okay? i said, yeah, it is in brooklyn, don t worry. it was quite a shock that he would be there. i still wonder what is he doing
on 1st avenue between 7th and 8th streets in downtown manhattan. gillian: bryan, we are awaiting the press conference that is going to start any moment, hopefully they can firm up details. what are you seeing right now on the ground, what are people telling you about how they feel about riding the subway today in the aftermath of this, especially now knowing frank james may have been down in there multiple hours after he shot 20 some people? well, look, there s no doubt that people were already apprehensive about riding the subway because of covid and the rise in crime and obviously governor kathy hochul and all of the new york state leaders have mentioned they were concerned what kind of an effect this would have on people who they were trying to on commuters as the city is trying to come back to life, so to speak, and they obviously believe that it was going to have a chilling effect on riders because even this morning the nypd commissioner and other leaders
the mayor s security detail return [inaudible] we are not going to discuss that. julia. can you take us from the crime stoppers tip to the arrest? what happened in between? how was he located. crime stoppers tip today? yeah. good afternoon. crime stoppers tip comes in, reports the male is in the mcdonald s on 6th street and 1st avenue, he s not in the mcdonald s, they start driving and the neighborhood looking for him, they see him on the corner of st. mark s and 1st and they take him into custody. no incident, and they take him into custody. [inaudible] so the camera systems in the subway system are not nypd cameras. they are owned and maintained by the mta. we have access to them, we do
the we believe, still early in the investigation, that after firing his weapon 33 times at innocent new york city subway riders, mr. james boarded an r train that had pulled into the station, went one stop up and exited at 25th street station. we also have a picture of that. the gun used in this, a nine millimeter glock, which was recovered at this crime scene, was bought, was purchased by mr. james in 2011 in ohio. we tracked mr. james and his last known whereabouts was 7th avenue and 9th and park slope entering the subway. minutes ago, thankfully, nypd patrol officers from the ninth precinct responded to st. mark s and 1st avenue where they apprehended him without incident. this case was quickly solved