Reporter: New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the arrest of 62-year-old Frank James, a day after he (1)allegedly (2)set off (3)smoke bombs and shot 10 passengers in a New York (4)subway car. (5)NYPD (6)Commissioner (7)Keechant Sewell told reporters James was arrested with the help of a Crime Stoppers tip.

Keechant Sewell: Hundreds of NYPD (8)detectives worked (9)doggedly during the last 30 hours to (10)bring this together. We were able to (11)shrink his world quickly. There was nowhere left for him to run.

Reporter: Police on Wednesday (April 13) said James was (12)spotted on a street in (13)Manhattan’s East Village ? less than 10 miles from the (14)scene of the crime. He was taken into custody, (15)without incident, and charged.

Officials say James ? who allegedly (16)fired 33 (17)rounds from a 9 mm (18)Glock on a crowded subway car ? had nine prior arrests in New York and three in New Jersey. The (19)semi-automatic handgun was later (20)recovered at the scene, police said, (21)along with three (22)extended-ammunition magazines, a (23)hatchet, some (24)consumer-grade (25)fireworks and a container of gasoline.

In addition to those shots ? five of whom were in (26)critical but stable condition on Wednesday ? 13 other people were injured in a panicked rush to (27)flee the smoke-filled (28)N train. All of the victims are expected to survive. (29)Commuters on Wednesday boarded the N train, with a (30)heightened police presence at the stop where the (31)shooting occurred.

(32)As for a (33)motive for the attack, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said that (34)remains unclear. (35)Investigators found (36)a number of social media posts linked to a person named Frank James that mentioned homelessness and Mayor Eric Adams, according to Sewell. A YouTube account (37)apparently belonging to James was (38)taken down Wednesday for (39)violating YouTube’s guidelines. (cReuters, April 14, 2022)