An argument between two groups of teenagers left one person killed and five others injured in a shooting at a New York subway station in Bronx on Monday.
The shooting began after the train’s doors opened on the elevated platform at the Mount Eden Avenue station in The Bronx at 4:38 PM – approximately rush hour.
A 34-year-old man was killed. The wounded included a 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old boy and three adults of 28, 29 and 71.
Some of the victims were believed to have been involved in the dispute and others were bystanders waiting for the train, police said, describing four of the injuries as serious.
The gunfire sent passengers rushing off the train while people on the platform scrambled for safety.
“We don’t believe this was a random shooting. We do not believe that this was an individual indiscriminately firing into a train or a train station”, NYPD’s chief of transit, Michael Kemper, said at a news conference.
Police are searching for at least one shooter, who fled the scene, but have not ruled out the possibility of multiple suspects.
“The train was coming and there were two kids yelling”, a witness, Efrain Feliciano, 61, told the New York Daily News. “There were at least six shots.”
“I saw sparkles as the bullets hit the wall”, he added. “A woman was holding a child screaming”.
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported 570 felony assaults in all of 2023, though shootings are uncommon – or at least supposedly, as the last one was in 2022.
