“The government will prove, among other things, that James traveled across state line in order to commit the offense and transported materials across a state line in aid of the commission of the offense,” Peace added. Peace said James intended to “cause death and serious bodily injury to passengers and MTA employees on the New York City subway system.” It’s unclear if James has an attorney and a local public defender group did not return messages. Attorney Breon Peace, whose office is handling the case.
If convicted, he faces a lifetime sentence, said U.S. James will now be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn. They also found the U-Haul truck he had rented in Philadelphia three blocks away, and the key to the truck at the crime scene, according to an account from Essig. Police officers viewed video of James entering the Kings Highway subway station in Brooklyn before the shooting, with a black cart that was recovered at the crime scene.
There was nowhere left for him to run,” she added. “We were able to shrink his world quickly. Sewell said officers “used every resource at our disposal” to gather evidence linking James to the crime. He too was facing a major test, as he campaigned almost exclusively on a promise to restore safety to the city after a Covid-era spike in crime that only worsened during his first 100 days in office. Police were under pressure to quickly make an arrest in the case, after James was able to escape from a crowded train station in broad daylight - calling into question the operability of subway station cameras.Īs the manhunt continued, Adams sought to assure New Yorkers the vital underground rail system was safe enough for commuting, while warning of the increasingly grave dangers illegal handguns have been posing across the five boroughs. “We hope this arrest brings some solace to the victims and the people of the city of New York.” “He will be charged with committing yesterday’s appalling crime in Brooklyn,” said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell - who confronted one of her first major tests in her relatively new role leading the nation’s largest police department. Police officers drove Dahnan away from a sidewalk press conference he was giving Wednesday as a crowd who’d gathered to hear his story broke into applause. James was transported to a police facility.Ī 21-year-old Manhattan man named Zack Dahnan told reporters he saw James in the East Village and called the police. Wednesday on a street corner in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, about seven miles from the Brooklyn scene where he shot 10 people and injured 13 others on a rush-hour train. Police arrested the 62-year-old at 1:42 p.m. “You can’t have a felony conviction and purchase a gun, so he had no felony convictions,” Essig explained.
But he was never found guilty of more serious crimes. He was also arrested in New Jersey three times, from 1991 through 2007, Essig said. His lengthy arrest record includes nine charges in New York from 1992 through 1998, including a criminal sex act and possession of burglary tools.
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