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New York
Subway
shooting
suspect
Andrew
Abdullah
is
escorted
by New
York
City
Police
(NYPD)
Detectives
as he
arrives
to turn
himself
in at a
Police
Precinct
in New
York
City,
U.S.,
May 24,
2022.
REUTERS/Brendan
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New York
police
arrest
suspect
in fatal
weekend
subway
shooting
reuters.com
NEW YORK
- A man
suspected
in the
fatal
weekend
shooting
of a New
York
City
subway
rider,
less
than two
months
after a
mass
shooting
on the
mass
transit
system,
was
taken
into
custody
on
Tuesday,
police
said.
Andrew
Abdullah,
25, was
arrested
in the
slaying
of
Brooklyn
resident
Daniel
Enriquez,
48, who
was shot
to death
while he
rode in
a subway
car on
Sunday
morning,
a New
York
Police
Department
spokesperson
said.
Abdullah
was
photographed
by
Reuters
walking
into the
NYPD's
5th
Precinct
station
in
handcuffs
with a
police
detective
escort.
An NYPD
Twitter
message
also
confirmed
the man
had been
"placed
into
custody."
No
details
about
his
arrest
were
immediately
available.
In a
Tweet
earlier
on
Tuesday,
the
department
said
police
were
searching
for
Abdullah
as a
suspect
in the
shooting
and
posted a
photograph
of him,
asking
for the
public's
help in
locating
him.
Daniel
Enriquez
had only
recently
started
taking
the
subway
to work
due to a
surge in
Uber
pricing.
Enriquez,
who
worked
for
investment
bank
Goldman
Sachs
Group
Inc, was
riding a
train
crossing
a bridge
from
Brooklyn
into
lower
Manhattan
when he
was shot
in the
chest
without
provocation,
authorities
said.
Enriquez
was
pronounced
dead at
Bellevue
Hospital.
Authorities
say the
suspect
fled the
train
after it
pulled
into the
Canal
Street
station.
Sunday's
attack
adds
further
pressure
on Mayor
Eric
Adams, a
former
police
captain
and
Brooklyn
borough
president
who made
crime
and
public
safety a
focus of
his
campaign
for the
office
last
year.
In
February,
the
second
month of
his
term,
Adams
and New
York
Governor
Kathy
Hochul
promised
to
increase
police
patrols
and
mental
health
outreach
in
response
to a
spate of
attacks
in the
subway
system,
which is
run by
the
state-controlled
Metropolitan
Transportation
Authority.
On April
12, the
subway
system
saw one
of the
most
violent
attacks
in its
history
when a
man set
off a
smoke
bomb and
opened
fire in
a subway
car. The
attack
left 23
people
injured,
including
10 hit
by
gunfire.
A
suspect
in the
attack,
62-year-old
Frank
James,
was
arrested
a day
later.
He was
indicted
earlier
this
month on
terrorism
and
other
federal
charges.
Reporting
by Steve
Gorman
in Los
Angeles
and
Brendan
O'Brien
in
Chicago;
Editing
by
Leslie
Adler
and
Jonathan
Oatis
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