The shooting onboard a Q train in Lower Manhattan on Sunday was unprovoked, the police said, and it sent riders scrambling for safety.
A man was shot and killed on Sunday morning on a subway train in Lower Manhattan in an attack that investigators believed was unprovoked, the police said.
The victim, 48, whose name the police have not released, was shot in the chest around 11:40 a.m. while riding a northbound Q train that was pulling into the Canal Street station, according to the Police Department.
Kenneth Corey, the chief of department, said there was no interaction between the victim and his attacker before the shooting, which occurred on the last car of the train.
“According to witnesses, the suspect was walking back and forth in the same train car, and, without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired it at the victim at close range as the train was crossing the Manhattan Bridge,” Chief Corey said.
Police officers tried to resuscitate the victim before paramedics arrived, but he died at Bellevue Hospital, the police said. No one else was injured, according to Chief Corey.
The assailant fled up to the street level and has not been caught, the police said. He was described as a dark-skinned man, heavyset with a beard, wearing a dark sweatshirt, an orange T-shirt, gray sweatpants and white sneakers.
Chief Corey said investigators were reviewing video footage from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s surveillance cameras and interviewing witnesses who were on the train. He asked for the public’s help in finding the gunman.
The shooting occurred a little less than six weeks after a gunman shot 10 people onboard an R train in Brooklyn, leaving dozens more injured in the aftermath of what officials have said was a terror attack.
The violence has shaken confidence in the safety of the subway as the city recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Adams has sought to reassure riders by removing homeless people living in the subway and placing hundreds of additional police officers in the system.
Murders are rare on the city’s buses and subways. Three people have been killed in the transit system this year, compared with four at this time last year, according to the most recent police statistics.
Major felony crime on buses and subways represents just 2 percent of overall city crime. But it is at the same level as before the pandemic, though ridership is 40 percent lower. And a succession of highly visible, random attacks — including the mass shooting on the N train and the shoving death of a woman in the Times Square station in January, has fueled a sense of chaos and lawlessness in a system indispensable to the life and economy of the city.
On Sunday afternoon, the train on which the shooting occurred was still stopped in the Canal Street station. Three uniformed police officers were guarding the last car, which was partitioned with yellow police tape strung between handrails.
Social media users described seeing the shots fired and people running off the train after the late-morning shooting.
Matthew Chavan, 32, of Brooklyn, said he was on the train headed to brunch with a companion when it stopped at Canal Street. He was seated in the third car from the front of the train when he noticed that people getting off the train suddenly stopped. There was yelling, and people started running toward the exits, he said.
The car he was in started to clear out, and he and his companion ran up to the street.
“We were asked what was going on, and my response was people don’t run for no reason,” he said.
K. Arsenault Rivera, 30, an author, said she was on the train, headed to Penn Station, where she planned to transfer on her way to a friend’s baby shower in New Jersey.
When the train pulled into Canal Street, she said, tension was in the air. She was sitting toward the front of the train when several people got up and moved.
She realized something was wrong when several people started filing off the train. Rumors of a gun sighting reached her car as people stood in the doorway filming with their phones.
Then, a man came running from the back of the train with his finger to his temple, she said. He said that someone had been shot in the last car and urged his fellow passengers to leave the train.
Police officers soon came flooding down the stairs, yelling for passengers to get away from the train, Ms. Arsenault Rivera said, and she “booked it” up the steps and took a cab home.
“It’s pretty harrowing stuff,” she said. “If I’d gotten on at a different point, I would have been right there.”
Nate Schweber contributed reporting.
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