NEW YORK — Almost 24 hours after a crazed gunman sprayed a subway car with bullets, wounding more than two dozen straphangers in Brooklyn, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that Frank James is now considered “a suspect” in the shooting, that the national manhunt to find him is “still active” and that “we are going to continue to close the loop around and bring him in.”
For the first time since the attack, Adams said James is a “suspect” rather than “a person of interest,” as police officials described him Tuesday evening, after a shooter let off at least 33 rounds during the morning commute on a Manhattan-bound N train in Sunset Park.
Adams was speaking on several radio and TV talk shows Wednesday morning about the incident. During an appearance on WNYC, Adams thanked the NYPD, as well as state and federal agencies, for helping “in apprehending this person,” but minutes later during an appearance on Bloomberg TV, he said he could not confirm whether James had been apprehended.
