have at their disposal to do so. that s going to include eye-witness accounts, getting a picture of this guy as quick as they can out to news stations,b to the local papers. they want a photo of this person to see if any new yorkers recognize this person so that they will call in to the nypd and tell them where that person is is. this is a big city. there are a lot of people. there are a lot of places to hide. but once you get that image out, there s a lot of people who see a lot of things and can potentially recognize them and call it in. so, they re looking right now. the person was wearing a green vest. there was question about whether the person worked for the mta. was it a worker? were they wearing a disguise? they don t know. they re still trying to figure that out. the mta workers we have seen on site have been wearing orange vests. so, that is one point of difference between the two. but we got some information. we re going to get a little more
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later this afternoon where we ll be able to update that and then additional briefings as needed. first deputy mayor. thank you, thank you, john. so, from the very minute this incident occurred, the mayor and i have been on the phone monitoring the situation constantly. we have worked with all of our agencies, the fdny, nypd, oem, all nof agencies who have worked really hard together and we continue to throw all of the city s resources at this situation. we ve made all of the resources available and we ll work with the office of emergency management for any additional needs. i m going to ask the police commissioner, to speak to you and give you an update on the events of today.
it has to end. it ends now. and we re sick and tired of reading headline about crime, whether they re mass shootings or the loss of a teenage girl or a 13-year-old. it has to stop. i m committing the full resources of our state to fight this surge of crime, this insanity that is seizing our city because we want to get back to normal. it has been a long-hard two years. that s what we crave, that sense stability and normalcy and this is what the mayor and i are are going to continue to work for. and i thank the partners, the brave people of the mta, the first ones who had the sense, the drivers of the train to leave the station to make sure no more victims could be hurt. the nypd, fdny, state police, everyone involved in this has one purpose and that s to stop the insanity of these crimes.
governor and the mayor for their leadership in all of our recovery, from covid and from everyone of the challenges. so, just to reiterate, we re going to be very limited in what we re able to answer in questions. just to also underline our partners here. we got mike reegen, he s the assistant special agents in charge of the joint terrorism task force with the nypd and the special agent in charge from new york city, the brooklyn district attorney who is also here, and covers, chief of the department and first deputy commissioner. we ll start with questions for the police commissioner. . suspect on the platform or in the train and did all happen [ inaudible ]. the suspect was in the train car. the shooting began in the train
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