A deranged gunman shot and killed a 48-year-old straphanger aboard a Manhattan subway train Sunday morning in what cops are calling an unprovoked attack.
The shooter, who was still on the loose Sunday afternoon, paced back and forth in the last car of the northbound Q train around 11:42 a.m. before he opened fire on the random victim seated inside, police and sources said.
“Completely random,” one police source said.
The victim, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
“According to witnesses, the suspect was walking back and forth in the same train car and, without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired at the victim at close range as the trains [were] crossing the Manhattan Bridge,” NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said at a press briefing.
When the train pulled into the Canal Street station, the gunman — described as a dark-skinned heavyset man with a beard — fled the station by running up to Centre Street, Corey said.
The shooter and the victim didn’t know each other, according to Corey. No one else on the train was injured.
Man shot and killed on NYC subway in ‘random’ broad-daylight attack, cops say
The man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was shot on a moving northbound Q subway near the Canal Street Station around 11:42 a.m., according to cops.
“S–t like this happens all the time,” Brooklyn resident Bill Taylor said at the Canal Street station after Sunday’s fatal shooting.
“Things happen but you can’t let it scare you,” said Taylor, 27. “You could walk outside and get hit by a car. It’s just one of those things.”
