undetonated smoke grenade. police also recovered a # millimeter glock with extended magazines. two detonated smoke grenades and gasoline. the chaos began during yesterday s morning commuted around 8:30 a.m. as the train pulled into the station. when witnesses say a man wearing knee on orange construction vest, a gray hoodie and a knee on green helmet dawned a gas mask and sped off smoke grenades and unleashed a hail of buflts. police recovered 33 spent shells passengers described as a frightening scene it? was scary because i didn t know what was going on. i thought maybe somebody got hit or something. it was like a scary moment. everyone was packed in that little station getting out. it was very scary. the four or five faces pushed behind the door behind them. smoke filling up. there is nothing i could do. that was the worst feeling of my entire life. that and man s face, i think i have closed my times and i still
and videos being sent and all that sort of thing, you re able to get a lot of information but now somebody has to sort through all of that stuff and make sense out of it. thanks so much, charles ramsey, we will continue to follow this breaking news story out of new york. this is cnn breaking news. and good morning, everybody. we are following breaking news this morning. i m bianna golodryga. and i m jim sciutto. the story out of new york, officials say at least 13 people are wounded. this following a shooting on a subway platform in brooklyn. at least one person in critical condition now. law enforcement officials say the suspect is a man who may have been wearing an orange construction vest. also may have had a gas mask. officials investigating, i m told whether the suspect had and used a smoke grenade in the course of this attack. there you see images from the subway scene there. blood on the ground there in
include other injuries from attempting to escape this attack, but we re waiting for more details on that. again, just resetting with the details we know about this attack, shooting on a subway platform in brooklyn. police responded just, first reports a little over an hour ago. initially, there were reports of awn exploded devices, we now know that appears to be a smoke device or smoke grenade you can see, taken to local hospitals and five people shot. this is what people say about the alleged attacker, possibly wearing a gas mask, that s important, of course. an orange construction vest. that suspect is still at large. left the scene and we know based on how the nypd operates, there s a large manhunt under way as we speak. anthony barksdale on the folks for us.
this point but the fact the attacker used a smoke grenade to distract, cause fear in the midst of the shooting or gas mask prepared for the effects of the grenade and orange construction vest to perhaps come across as some sort of official there. joseph giacalone there with us now. former nypd sergeant. i m curious as you look at the emerging details of this attack right now and the top line woun w ones on our screen, total of 13 injured at this point. have you ever seen an attack like this, in your experience with the nypd with this combination of details as we know them at this point? well, believe it or not, i mean, we rarely have incidents like this. so the answer to your question is no. it s just something that unfortunately, they re trained for and hope that you never have to use. so there s so many different aspects and plans about this. for instance, hospitals in and around the area will be notified immediately in case there are more victims then previously
unfortunately, with, you know, with the ride sharing and other subways, it is pretty easy to sneak through that. yeah. listen, i ve seen them deploy those quick reaction forces. able to cover them as they do. and it is amazing how quickly police can get to the scene of something. i m talking within minutes, right? maybe in a couple of minutes, if they re close enough. and you can see some of that presence there now and just how broad that police presence is outside that brooklyn police station. we also have anthony barksdale on the line with us here. again, as the details come in, a number of steps that the attacker as far as we know it took here, wearing a gas mask, police investigating whether he brought along a smoke grenade, wearing an orange construction vest to give the impression of being an official worker, and, of course, brought a loaded gun and has done a lot of damage here. that speaks to evenplan ing than we knew initially.