The city’s subway system has long banned firearms, with exceptions for law enforcement officers or the small number of people with concealed carry licenses. Those rules, officials said, will not immediately change.
The 39-year-old victim was operating a shuttle bus for passengers left stranded by overnight repairs on the Q line when the attacker forced open the back doors near Ocean and Flatbush Aves. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens about 12:30 a.m., cops said.