NEW YORK — Three minutes felt like a lifetime to a Brooklyn subway rider after a lone gunman opened fired inside the car he was in, turning a morning commute into a bloodbath.
Shaken riders who escaped the subterranean Tuesday morning shooting spree spoke of terror and chaos after the gunman rose from his seat in the rear of an N/R train and opened fire, wounding 10 riders with nowhere to run or hide. Six others were injured.
“It happened inside my car,” said the 50-year-old technician riding inside the second car of a train beneath Sunset Park when the shooting started around 8:30 a.m. “I didn’t see the guy. I seen a lot of people on top of me. ... People piled on top of me, trying to get away from the guy who was in the back of the car.
