NYPD seeking 62-year-old “person of interest” in NYC subway shooting

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The NYPD has identified Frank R. James as a “person of interest” in the investigation of the Brooklyn subway shooting. They believe he rented a U-Haul van whose keys were found at the scene. Police are investigating whether he has any connection to the shooting and have not named him as a suspect. Ten people were shot Tuesday morning and at least 13 others injured when a suspect opened smoke grenades on a train and fired a gun 33 times. Hourari Benkada says he was sitting next to the shooter and was shot in the back of his knee. He joins AC360 from his hospital bed and describes the terrifying moment he realized he was hit by a bullet. Plus, President Biden says it’s “become clearer” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing “genocide” in Ukraine. CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward is in Dnipro, Ukraine and tells AC360 what she saw when she left Kyiv earlier in the day. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Police in New York tonight now have a person of interest, their words in the subway mass
0:06.4	shooting this morning that might have easily become a massacre.
0:10.1	33 shots fired, 10 people wounded, amazingly and thankfully no one killed.
0:16.0	John Berman here in Ferranderson and take a look at this.
0:19.5	These are the photos the NYPD released tonight of Frank James, the person of interest.
0:24.7	He's 62 years old.
0:26.0	He has a dress in Wisconsin in Philadelphia and we should stress police are not calling
0:30.6	him a suspect.
0:32.3	They say he rented the van, found a short drive from the shooting scene in Brooklyn.
0:35.9	If you know him or have any information on the shooting, you're asked to call 1-800-577
0:41.3	tips.
0:42.3	That's 1-800-577-T-I-P-S.
0:47.0	This all began in the middle of rush hour this morning.
0:49.6	The smoke from two smoke canisters, police say the gunman set off before opening fire
0:55.1	with a 9-millimeter pistol.
0:56.8	In a moment we will speak to one of the 10 gunshot victims, a man who says he was sitting
1:01.4	right next to the gunman, moments before the fire and began.
1:04.7	First though we want to get the very latest from the scene in the sunset park section of
1:08.2	Brooklyn, seen as Bryn Gingrass is there, Bryn a flurry of late developments today, give
1:13.0	us the latest.
1:14.0	Yeah, and the biggest one though, John is what you just said.
1:18.0	They are still looking for this person, as you mentioned, person of interest according
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