Motive Probe In NYC Subway Shooting Narrows Focus As New Suspect Details Emerge
Detectives turned their attention to a possible motive Thursday, a day after police arrested one man accused of shooting 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others during an alleged subway attack in Brooklyn.
The suspect is expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn later today, while federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are working to gather details about the life of the 62-year-old black man.
History of unsettled work. The arrests are mainly for low-level crimes. Storage locker with more ammunition. And the huge, huge videos of her wandering on her YouTube channel show a deep and boiling rage.
James has posted dozens of videos against race, violence and mental illness. One stands out with his relative calm. Silent shot of a crowded New York subway car, as he raises his finger to show passengers one by one.
"This nation was born out of violence, and has been kept alive by violence or intimidation; it will be a violent death," James said in a video clip where he received the title "Prophet of Religion."
After a 30-hour search, James was arrested without incident when police said he could be found near a McDonald's restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side. "We got it," Mayor Eric Adams declared the winner. After his arrest.
Police said their priority was to get the suspect off the street when asked the biggest unanswered question of the accused: Why?
They said the original source was his YouTube video. He seems to have an opinion on everything: racism in America, the mayor of New York, the state of mental health services, 9/11, Russia's invasion of Ukraine - black women.
The federal criminal complaint was filed by a man where James pressured a lot of hungry people on the subway to blame the mayor of New York.
"What are you doing, brother?" "The car I was in was full of ships, and the situation was so bad I couldn't even get up," he said in a video posted March 26.
James then spoke of the attitude towards blacks in the April 6 video, which was revealed through the complaint, "So, for me, the message is as follows.
In a video posted the day before the attack, James criticized the leprosy crime, saying that "some people will change everything from their 'comfort zone' if they are tortured with fists, legs and feet".
CCTV footage shows James entering the subway door on Tuesday morning in a yellow hard hat and orange jacket with reflective tape as a waiter or construction worker.
Police said his escorts only heard him say "Operation" when he hurled a smoke bomb at a crowded subway car as he was passing through the station. Police said he then threw a second smoke grenade and started firing. In the ensuing smoke chase, police say James crossed the first stop and fled in the opposite direction on the train.
Frank James, 62, will appear in federal court in Brooklyn. If convicted, he faces life in prison. NBC New York Jonathan Denst reports.
Keys to rifles, augmented magazines, axes, unexploded smoke grenades, trash, roller trucks, petrol-powered U-Hall pickup trucks were found at the scene.
The key leads investigators to James, who "pointed out a life of failure and anger while flying through maintenance at the plant, was fired at least twice, and relocated to Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York."
Investigators say James was arrested 12 times in New York and New Jersey between 1990 and 2007. The nine previous arrests in New York between 1992 and 1998 included robbery, criminal sexual harassment and robbery.
Police said at a news conference Wednesday that James made three more arrests in New Jersey in 1991, 1992 and 2007, including assault, robbery and rioting.
James had no faith, and buying or possessing firearms was not forbidden. Police say the weapons used in the attack were legally found in 2011 at a pan shop in Ohio. Investigators say a close-up photo of the gun he bought showed him trying to delete its serial number. But agents used this number to track his purchases.
A search of James's Philadelphia warehouse turned up at least two types of ammunition, including an AR-15 assault rifle, a machete and a blue cigarette.
Law enforcement sources say they believe Frank James himself is the "tip" of crime prevention. NBC New York staff coverage.
Police say James was born and raised in New York. In his video, he says in his video, he took a mechanical engineering course in 1983 and then worked as a gear mechanic at Curtis-Wright, an aircraft manufacturer in New Jersey, until the bad news came in 1991. He was fired and soon after his father died he lived with him in New Jersey.
Records show that James sued the airline in federal court after losing his job because of racial discrimination, but a judge dismissed it a year later. "He couldn't do me justice for what I went through," he said in the video, without elaborating.
A spokesman for Curtis Wright did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
James described entering and leaving several mental health facilities, including two in the Bronx in the 1970s.
"Mr. Mayer, let me tell you - I'm a victim of your mental health program in New York," James said in a video earlier this year, which was "full of hatred, anger and bitterness."
James said he later fell ill at a mental health facility at Bridgeway House in New Jersey, which could not be immediately confirmed. Messages left in the organization are not returned.
"My goal at Bridget in 1997 was to give up social security and get back to work," he said in the video, adding that he had taken a "computer design course" in college. և Production.
James says he finally got a job at telecom giant Lucent Technologies in Persiban, New Jersey, but says he was eventually fired and returned to Bridgeway House, this time not as a patient but as a service employee. Comments have been sent to Lucent Technologies.
"I just want to work, I want to be an influential person," he said.
The uprising erupted after James' parked car crashed in Milwaukee. Eugene Earbro, patron of Mt. Zion, the side door of James' apartment at the Subgenius Church, and says that James was impressed by the priest's efforts to try a car accident. Neither James nor anyone else was an eyewitness to the accident. Jacob called him, so to speak.
"I couldn't believe it was him," Yarbun said. "But who knows what people will do?"
Police and federal agents say James has not had a permanent job or a specific phone address in the past few years. He rented a U-Hall truck bearing his name in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon and appeared to have fallen asleep while police removed beds, pillows and chairs hours after the shooting.
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