happening at the 36th street and 4th avenue subway station there in brooklyn. we should also tell you this comes at a time, on the heels of a number of attacks at subway stations as you know here in new york city. just recently one, a shooting on march 20th at a subway station. another subway attack on march 2nd also in brooklyn. just in january, new york city s new mayor eric adams said he was going to require more police officers to patrol more frequently at some of these subway stops to try to lure subway riders back into the system. a number of people here in the city living on edge as they have seen crime in certain areas starting to tick upwards. again, this information coming to us from 36th street and 4th avenue, in brooklyn. the fdny, again, reporting multiple people shot there at that location. again, several undetonated devices at that location, but,
are now trying to piece this together. well, i m not familiar with the new york city subway system but if this is a location that is not heavily traveled, that makes it a softer target. so if you did have the intent of doing something and getting away with it, that would make sense to do it there but i do want to say this and that is that like any investigation of this magnitude, this very dynamic, a lot of the information you get early on turns out not to be that accurate and so we need to be careful and kind of sift through things right now. there s the very, very early stages. they re securing that scene. if there is other devices there, they ve got to render them safe. i m sure they re checking other subway and transit stations throughout the city to find out whether or not they re safe or not. there s a lot of stuff going on right now. and i heard it mentioned earlier that all the federal agencies are responding. nypd obviously, the largest department in the country, very well r
going to call the nypd. nypd was probably on the way, if not already there, and some form or fashion. but now with, you know, with these devices being mentioned, this has to be a top concern for everyone in new york city. right. no question. jason carroll following this. i understand you have new information. right. and that s about a possible suspect here. police saying, according to a preliminary report that a male suspect, possibly wearing a gas mask, and an orange construction vest fled the scene to some sort of unknown location. we had also indicated earlier that five people were reported shot. we have now also been told according to a source that one of those victims is in critical condition after the incident. that information coming into us now as well about the suspect
at the location, that is a possible smoke device, apparently was detonated at that subway location. just it recap this happened a short while ago at a subway stop station there in brooklyn, 36th street and 4th avenue. when units arrived, they found that multiple people had been shot. we have now confirmed that five people have been shot. when they arrived there, they also said several undetonated devices were found at that same location. few moments ago, it was unclear specifically what those undetonated devices were. we re being told it was a smoke device that was detonated at the location. i m told now, jason, just coming in from a police source that investigators are now looking to determine if it was a smoke grenade that was the explosive device identified. investigators still confirming that, but that they re looking to determine if that was the
system there in brooklyn, so theoretically nypd when they re down there, looking for any witnesses who can describe these suspects or suspects in this particular case. again, just to recap, because the information is still the information that we had from earlier that we had received multiple people shot at that subway location there in brooklyn. again, several undetonated devices, but the fdny not specifying what those devices were there at that particular location. and, again, i know you were talking about crime a short while ago. it should be noted that just recently the nypd had announced that shootings in new york city rose during 2022 s first quarter compared to the same period last year, homicides for that same period seemed to decline. but very clearly for those who live in new york city, there is