Good to be with you. i m katy tur coming to you live from brooklyn, new york, where a search is ongoing for a gunman after a shooting on a subway train. here is what we know right now. first, a warning this video may be hard to watch. according to the nypd the gunman donned a gas mask on a manhattan-bound train just before 8:30 a.m. and set off a device that filled a subway car with smoke. he then opened fire on passengers shooting ten people, according to the fdny. this video shows the people fleeing from the train after it pulled into the 36th street station and smoke billowing out of the car. fellow passengers helped the injured get to the station platform. what is not visible here is the shooter himself who fled the scene.
Months. taking steps to acquire the gas canisters and gas mask. he s going to be aggrieved, he s going to be angry, and then silent for the last week or two as he got very close to his flash point. if that describes someone you know, please call the police. that s the kind of public appeal that will cause the light bulb to go on and say i know who that is. so, pete williams, to give a little bit more information, add to what you were saying, upon leaving the train the suspect left his 9 millimeter glock which jammed up. he also left his gas mask and more than one smoke canister and a bag that he had onboard. when they are doing that fingerprinting if the person is in the system and it s hard to imagine they wouldn t be
Unless things have changed in the last few minutes, officials in law enforcement still do not have a photo of the suspect. pete williams reported a moment ago it appears the suspect left quite a bit of material on the subway platform and in the subway car that law enforcement have their hands on. it will come down to technology. i mean everything from surveillance footage everywhere but that car, that platform up and down the line as you ve been talking about in the greater borough where he s headed or come from. and now this plethora of riches in terms of evidence collection. when you take on and off a gas mask, you are necessarily taking hair, you are taking dna, your perspiration, your fingerprints,
Honed in recent years put into play in a case like this to try to identify and apprehend the person as quickly as possible. the good news pete williams reports he did leave behind it seems quite a bit of material at the scene. when you heard the description of what was happening, that the man donned a gas mask, opened a gas canister and opened it on the train as it was heading into the platform, the train filled with smoke and then he hoped fire, what struck you about the way in which that man operated? i think the first thing you think of is the premeditation, clearly this is somebody who put some thought into the incident today and you quickly turn to motivation and that is not as easy to discern where we are today but i think as we move forward and more is learned and hopefully sooner more than later the individual is identified and apprehended, then weep get to do
Correspondent pete williams. so, pete, i understand you have new information. reporter: well, one of the questions has been how will they identify him? what sort of evidence was left behind? we now know according to law enforcement officials he left behind a fair amount of material. apparently, according to police he pulled this gas mask and the canister out of a bag that he was carrying and opened fire with a handgun that he was carrying and our understanding now is that he left all of that behind when he fled the scene, when he fled the car. now the shooting happened as the subway train was pulling in. it s going northbound, going from brooklyn towards manhattan. and as it s pulling into the 36th street station, that s when the gunman puts on the gas mask, sets off the smoke, and begins firing and then fled and left behind the gun, a glock 9 millimeter which had apparently jammed, the gas mask, the bag