Cellphone video reveals woman stabbed man before subway shooting: NYPD

BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — Charges are pending against a 32-year-old man who shot another man during a dispute on a Brooklyn subway train.

Police say chaos unfolded on the A train at around 4:45 p.m. Thursday at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station.

MTA CEO Janno Lieber and NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper briefed the public Friday morning on the latest details from Thursday’s attack.

As a 32-year-old man boarded the train, he was approached by a 36-year-old, who was already on the train, and a dispute ensued.

Officials revealed that cellphone video from the shooting shows a woman was also involved.

“There was a female that was on the train, apparently with the 32-year-old. it looks like on that video. it captures her involvement in the incident also. It looks like she had a sharp object and cut the 36-year-old male with that sharp object,” Kemper said.

The woman appeared to stab the victim in the lower back.

Authorities say that after he was stabbed, the 36-year-old man asked “Did you stab me?” He pulled a gun from his jacket and asked again, “You stabbed me, right?”

The 32-year-old man was able to grab the gun and strike the other man in the head.

Cellphone video captured the dispute between the two men, and the frantic moments as passengers scrambled to safety when the shots rang out. One woman can be heard screaming, “Let me out, let me out!”

“As I’m coming out, you hear pops like three or four shots. Pop, pop, pop. Then the doors open. Everybody come flying out,” one commuter said.

“I don’t think I was going to make it back home. I was next to everything like just like you are in front of me. That’s where I was,” another commuter recalled.

The train pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, where officers heard the shots and flooded the crime scene.

The 36-year-old was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition.

Authorities say a gun was recovered at the scene. Lieber says there is no place for guns on trains.

“I’m here today to thank the officers who intervened and responded so quickly,” Lieber said Friday. “As people were rushing up the stairs, they rushed down the stairs and made an immediate apprehension. That’s bravery, that’s courage.”

Lieber also thanked Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams. He says their commitment to rider safety, crime deterrence, and crime prevention is paramount.

“Transit crime is 2% of the crime in the city of New York, but it has a huge disproportionate impact on people’s sense of safety.”

Officials say the 32-year-old who fired the weapon in Thursday’s attack is in custody with charges pending.

Adams spoke about the incident Friday morning, and how police and other safety resources are important underground.

“A person with severe mental health illness, what appears to be severe mental health illness, got engaged in a very violent way. The investigation is going to take its course,” Adams said.

An investigation is underway.

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