US Subway shooting suspect arrested

US Subway shooting suspect arrested. 

Frank James has been detained in connection with the Brooklyn subway shooting that left ten people injured.

Frank James made dozens of films in which he rants about race, violence, and his mental illness. However, one distinguishes out for its tranquility: He lifts his finger to point out passengers in a silent image of a crowded New York City subway car.

Even after police apprehended James in the Brooklyn subway shooting that left ten people injured on Wednesday. 

They were still trying to piece together a slew of data about the 62-year-old Black man’s past.

Work history with a lot of ups and downs. Arrests for a series of relatively minor offenses. 

More ammunition in a storage locker. On his YouTube page, he has hours of rambling, racist, profanity-laced films that indicate a deep, boiling fury.

In a video in which he adopts the moniker “Prophet of Doom,” James states, “This nation was formed in violence, it’s kept alive by violence or the fear thereof, and it will suffer a violent death.”

After a 30-hour manhunt, James was apprehended without incident near a McDonald’s on Manhattan’s Lower East Side after a tipter, believed to be James himself, claimed he could be found there.

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“We got him!” Mayor Eric Adams exclaimed gleefully. Police said their primary goal was getting the suspect, charged with federal terrorism, off the streets. 

But, at the same time, they investigated the biggest unanswered question: why?

His YouTube videos, they claimed, are a gold mine of evidence. He appears to have strong feelings about almost everything. 

It includes racism in America, the incoming mayor of New York City, the quality of mental health services, 9/11, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Black women.

According to a federal criminal complaint, James complained about too many homeless persons on the train. He blamed it on New York City’s mayor.

In a video posted on March 27, he questioned, “What are you doing, brother?” “Every automobile I saw was full of homeless individuals.” It was so awful that I couldn’t stand it.”

Surveillance cameras caught James, dressed as a maintenance or construction worker. He was in a yellow hard hat and an orange working jacket with reflective tape, accessing the subway system turnstiles on Tuesday morning.

According to police, he just said “oops” as he detonated one smoke grenade in a crowded subway car as it approached a station. According to investigators, he then detonated a second smoke grenade and began firing.

According to authorities, James allegedly made his run amid the smoke and mayhem by getting into an R-train traveling in the opposite direction and exiting after the first stop. 

The rifle, extended magazines, a hatchet, detonated and undetonated smoke grenades, a black garbage can, a rolling cart, gasoline, and the key to a U-Haul van were left behind at the scene, according to authorities.

That key led investigators to James and clues to a life of disappointments and rage as he jumped between factory and maintenance jobs, was fired at least twice, and relocated between Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York.

According to investigators, James was arrested 12 times in New York and New Jersey between 1990 and 2007, including for possession of burglary tools, criminal sex act, trespassing, theft, and disorderly conduct.

James had no felony convictions and was not barred from owning or purchasing a handgun. The gun used in the attack, according to police, was legally purchased in 2011.

At least two ammo types, including the kind used with an AR-15 assault-style rifle, a taser, and a blue smoke cannister, were discovered in James’ Philadelphia storage facility and apartment.

According to court records, James filed a racial discrimination complaint against the aerospace business in federal court shortly after losing his employment. Still, it was dismissed by a judge a year later.

He states in one video that he “couldn’t obtain any justice for what I went through” but doesn’t elaborate.

Curtiss-spokeswoman Wright did not immediately return a phone seeking comment.

In the 1970s, James remembers being in and out of many mental health facilities.