John Rote, 43, who opened fire at a Manhattan subway station this week – while warning a would-be mugger to leave a woman alone – posted bail and returned to his Queens home Friday morning.
similarities with the ferguson shooting, which was in 1993. what are you seeing police doing now if they learned something from that shooting? one thing, this is very uncommon for us to have a shooting in the transit system. when we go back to the shooting with ferguson on the lirr in 1993, people weren t concerned about shootings. here we had a gunman in the same situation, the magazine jammed. the magazine jammed in this incident as well. the one thing i give the transit borough for is they train officers outside of the academy specific to the instances in transit so they can effectively interdict situations that happen in the transit system. we didn t have an officer on the platform or in that car to detect and eradicate the threat. andrew, we are six hours or so since this shooting happened.