PHOTOS: Brooklyn Subway Shooting Heroes Honored By The City

NEW YORK, NY — The fact that Frank James called the police hotline on himself last week doesn't diminish the success of detectives and good Samaritans who eventually caught the suspected subway shooter last week — it magnifies it, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

"If a rat rolls in his own hole, it’s because we closed around him and he had nowhere else to go," Adams said Wednesday. "The job we did ... gave him no other choice."

That job was carried out by the city, state and federal law enforcement who led a massive manhunt for James, and four good Samaritans who tipped off authorities before his arrest just 30 hours after the rush hour mass shooting in Sunset Park, officials said.

Both were honored for their work on Wednesday.

"Each of these individuals exemplifies the determination and courage that makes us all proud to be New Yorkers," NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. "Working together, we got a violent offender off the streets."

James, who is facing a federal terror charge, is accused of firing 33 shots on an N train that rolled into 36th Street Station last Tuesday morning, hurting more than 20 people, according to officials.

His photo was blasted across New York City that evening when authorities connected a key found at the shooting to a van James had rented and a gun recovered at the station to his name, officials said.

But not all of the investigation went smoothly. At least one security camera that could have captured the attack, and a police radio used by one of the first responders both malfunctioned in the aftermath of the attack, according to reports. Questions also surfaced about whether police correctly froze the trains in and out of the station after the shooting, though the NYPD has denied the detail.

Before police released his photo, James escaped authorities in Sunset Park and traveled to a subway station in Park Slope.

The next day, four New Yorkers — Francisco Puebla, Cheikh Mohamad, Zack Tahhan, and Jack Griffin — spotted James in Manhattan and alerted law enforcement, officials said. James called the Crime Stoppers hotline himself around the same time, police said.

The four tipsters, and a fifth who has not been named, split a $50,000 reward set up by the MTA, the transit workers union and NYPD Crime Stoppers, officials said.

They were given proclamations Wednesday along with the Brooklyn officers and federal agents who led the search.

Check out photos from the ceremony here: