Frank James is suspected of shooting and injuring 23, including 10 from bullets, on the New York subway on Tuesday.
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Frank James is suspected of shooting on the New York subway at rush hour on Tuesday, April 12, injuring 23, including 10 from bullets. The 62-year-old African American was taken into custody on Thursday. Arrested in the Manhattan borough of New York on Wednesday, he made his first appearance in federal court in Brooklyn and heard the charges against him. Including the “terrorist attack” that now has him risking his life in prison.
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He “opened fire on passengers on a crowded subway train, disrupting their morning commute in a way this city hasn’t seen in over 20 years,” prosecutor Sara Winik said in court. “His attack was premeditated, carefully planned, and sparked horror among the victims and across the city,” she added.
Silently during this brief hearing, Frank James took notes several times, which he passed on to his two attorneys. One of them, Mia Eisner-Grynberg, warned in a press statement before the Federal Court of Justice against her client’s “hasty judgment” without saying clearly whether he denied being the shooter.
“Often the first information from the press and the police in such cases is inaccurate,” she added, recalling that her client was entitled to a “fair trial”.