subway attack, hourari benkada who was sitting next to the shooter and was shot in the back of the knee while trying to flee the scene. hourari, first of all, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i understand that you are still in quite a bit of pain. how are you doing? i still feel the pain. they gave me a punch of pain medicine. it is still i can still see the hole. goodness, my friend. thank you, as bianna said, for joining us from your hospital bed there. these are difficult memories, i know, from yesterday. you were sitting next to the shooter. can you walk us through the moments yes, i was sitting next to the shooter. right before, did he say anything? did he do anything to cause you to be suspicious? i had my headphones on. i thought it was a regular smoke bomb. and then the smoke kept pouring
times, hitting ten people. all are expected to survive. a credit card and keys to a u-haul van were found at the scene. police named frank james a person of interest. they say he rented the van, which was later discovered in brooklyn. police say they don t know if james has any connection to the subway attack, and they have not called him a suspect. one witness was in the train heading to work when smoke filled the car. during all this time i m thinking it s fire crackers. and it s not until i raise my head up and i see there is a lot of blood on the floor that i realize fire crackers can t do this much damage. it has to be it has to be somebody with a gun. across the country and in new york, violence has increased during the pandemic. over the last two years, shootings in the city are up more than 72%. randi kaye reports this was the
magazines, fire works and gun powder have been recovered in the station law enforcement sources say and believe the gun jammed during the shooting. a motive for the attack remains unknown with the suspect still on the loose. he s being reported as a male black, approximately 5 5 . with a heavy build. he was wearing a green construction type vest. and a hooded sweatshirt the color is gray. they investigated a u haul van with arizona license plates in connection with with the shooting. new york mayor in isolation recovering from covid-19 told cnn it s too early to dismiss the subway attack as not terror related. this is terror of someone attempted to terrorize our system. they brought in what appears to be some form of smoke device, they discharged a weapon. and so, i don t want to be premature. this was or was not. at this time the investigators will do their due diligence to