Surveillance cameras inside the New York City subway system were not working when a person opened fire on April 12, according to officials.
Preliminary indications are that cameras inside the specific station where the man fired a gun were malfunctioning, New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said.
“The preliminary review stated that at that particular station there appeared to have been some form of malfunction with the camera system. That is still under investigation,” Adams said on WCBS.
Authorities say a man donned a gas mask on Tuesday morning as a train pulled into the 36th Street Station in Sunset Park, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, before opening two smoke canisters and firing at least 33 times.