Crime & Safety

U-Haul Linked To Brooklyn Subway Shooting Found: Reports

A U-Haul linked to the man suspected in the Brooklyn mass subway shooting Tuesday morning has been found, according to reports.

Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. ( (AP Photo/John Minchillo))

BROOKLYN — A U-Haul possibly linked to the suspect in the mass shooting at a Sunset Park subway station was located hours later in Gravesend, according to multiple reports.

Police shut down the area near West Third Street and Kings Highway Tuesday afternoon amid a massive manhunt for the gas-masked gunman who shot 10 people in a Brooklyn subway car, according city officials and a CNN report.

The van was empty and the shooter remained at large, according to a New York Times report.

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New Yorkers were warned to expect traffic delays, road closures and mass transit disruptions in the area by the city's emergency management department.

Officers spent the day searching for the U-Haul as the city braced itself for what Gov. Kathy Hochul described as an "active-shooter situation."

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A total of 17 people were injured in the violent subway attack with 10 shot and five in critical but stable condition, the FDNY and NYPD said.

Video shows screaming straphangers fleeing an N train car, with billows of smoke at their backs, as it pulled into the 36th Street station at Fourth Avenue.

One resident saw two people fleeing the station covered in blood.

"They looked like zombies and were just in shock," the man told Patch. "It's really scary because if it was tomorrow, it could have been me commuting."


Patch reporters Matt Troutman and Kayla Levy contributed to this report.

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