Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect Arrested After Frantic Manhunt: "There Was Nowhere Left For Him To Run"

Frank R. James, the man accused of carrying out the bloodiest attack on New York's subway system in years, was apprehended Wednesday, more than 24 hours after a massive manhunt began when at least ten people were shot at a Brooklyn train station.

Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect Arrested

Per the New York Times, the police commissioner stated, "There was nowhere left for him to run."

Officials say James was detained in the East Village and accused of committing a terrorist act on a mass transit system in a criminal complaint. James may face life in prison if convicted, according to Breon S. Peace, the US attorney for New York's Eastern District, who presented the accusations.

James was brought in handcuffs out of the Ninth Precinct on East 5th Street Wednesday afternoon, dressed in a solid blue shirt and black jeans. On Thursday, he is scheduled to appear in federal court. James's lawyer, who the court chose, did not immediately reply to calls for comment.

Officials claimed James was captured due to a tip from a McDonald's at 6th Street and First Avenue. The arrest, which sparked a flood of videos and tweets from those who saw the arrest or said they helped identify James, brought an end to a manhunt that began during rush hour on Tuesday morning when a gunshot in the Sunset Park subway station injured at least 23 people.

Officials said James, who was wearing a construction worker's helmet and vest as well as a gas mask, tossed two smoke grenades into the floor of an N train as it entered the station at 8:30 a.m. and then opened fire. Tuesday.

Officials claimed James exited the N train after the attack and boarded a local R train across the platform, where some of his victims had already fled. He exited the subway at the following stop, 25th Street, and went on the run for more than a day.

Locals were scared and shaken by an early-morning FBI raid on a Philadelphia Airbnb that alleged Brooklyn subway gunman Frank James rented out, but the investigators came up empty-handed.

Joseph Gillooly, 46, a neighbor, claimed nearby streets were sealed off and that officers "fired tear gas into the building three times." The authorities found two empty magazines and ammo, but no James, according to the FBI. Locals claimed to know nothing about the fugitive but claimed to have seen him at least once, the NY Post reported.

Frank James Has 9 Past Criminal Charges

The New York Police Department has disclosed that subway shooting suspect Frank James has a long criminal past in New York and New Jersey, dating back over three decades.

On Wednesday, James was apprehended on 1st Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets when a bystander recognized him and reported him to police. His capture on Wednesday brought an end to the FBI's and NYPD's humiliating and failed day-long manhunt.

James, who had six arrests in New York between 1992 and 1998, was "known to us," according to NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig. James' rap sheet included no felony arrests, only a series of nine misdemeanor charges, including two sex crime charges and four possession of burglary tool charges in New York between 1992 and 1998, police said.

He was charged with trespassing in 1991, theft in 1992, and disorderly conduct in 2007, according to police in New Jersey. As he was led by police outside the Ninth Precinct in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon, James was observed grinning.

Now that he's been apprehended, the focus will shift to why it took the cops so long to discover him in a city littered with video cameras and why it took a citizen to bring him down finally.

When he opened fire on the northbound N train at 8.24 a.m., the cameras inside the 36th Street station were not working. James, 62, was known for his YouTube rants against violence, racism, Eric Adams, and crime in New York City, as per Daily Mail.