Police search public’s assist in seek for NYC subway shooter

Police trying to find an unidentified man who shot and killed one other passenger on a shifting New York City subway prepare requested for the general public’s assist Monday.

“We need all eyes on this,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted. She posted two surveillance digital camera pictures of the unidentified suspect, a burly man wearing a hoodie on a scorching day.

The shooter fled after the Q prepare arrived on the Canal Street station in Manhattan late Sunday morning. He shot and killed 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez, of Brooklyn, who was reportedly heading to brunch.

Enriquez had labored for Goldman Sachs’ world funding analysis division since 2013. Goldman chair and CEO David Solomon mentioned that Enriquez was a devoted and beloved worker and that the corporate was devastated. Enriquez “epitomized our culture of collaboration and excellence,” Solomon mentioned in a ready assertion.

Mayor Eric Adams mentioned Monday that investigators had few leads and referred to as the capturing “unimaginable.”

“You’re sitting down, going to brunch, going to visit a family member, a person walks up to you and shoots you for no reason,” Adams mentioned. “That is the worst nightmare.”

There have been no cops on the prepare automobile the place the capturing occurred, he mentioned, and the town will consider how it’s deploying officers throughout the sprawling subway system.

Witnesses advised police the gunman was pacing the final automobile of the prepare, “and without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired it at the victim at close range,” NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey advised reporters Sunday.

The capturing got here greater than a month after a person opened fireplace inside a Brooklyn subway prepare, scattering random photographs that wounded 10 folks. The individual charged in that assault, Frank James, had posted dozens of on-line movies ranting about race, violence and his struggles with psychological sickness.