New York City:
New York City police said Monday that multiple people were shot at a subway station in the Bronx, with local media reporting that as many as six people were struck by bullets.
The local ABC TV affiliate, citing unnamed police sources, reported that one person had died from their injuries, and five other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said they did not yet have details on exactly how many people were shot or the condition of the victims. It is not yet known whether the shooter has been arrested.
The latest data shows that crime remains rare in New York's subway system, with about 3.8 million rides on the system on an average weekday, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported 570 crimes in all of 2023.
Shootings are especially rare: In 2022, when a man with a gun wounded 10 people on a train passing through Brooklyn, it was the first mass shooting on the subway system since 1984.
A few weeks later, in May 2022, a man shot and killed 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez on a Q train in what police said was an unprovoked attack.
Fears about how dangerous the subway really is among passengers rose early in the pandemic, as subway crime rates spiked in early 2020 but fell back to normal levels in 2021. Travelers' perception of the dangers remains high, even if there is a downward trend. crime rates.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former chief of the city's police department, has tried to reassure nervous commuters by increasing the number of police officers at subway stations.
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