NEW YORK — A gunman wearing a gas mask and firing a 9 mm handgun blasted a path of destruction through a Brooklyn rush-hour subway car that injured 22 people Tuesday before he disappeared despite a massive NYPD manhunt.
The assailant detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire around 8:30 a.m. after issuing a two-word warning to straphangers inside the crowded car of a northbound N train: “Start running.”
Ten riders were shot and 12 others were injured. Five of the victims were hospitalized in critical condition once the shooting stopped, authorities said.
