Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect: What To Know About Frank James

Update: Frank James was arrested Wednesday afternoon and faces a terror-related charge. Read more here.

NEW YORK CITY — An hours-long cache of YouTube videos appears to show Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank R. James spew bigoted views and endorse violence.

“I wanted to kill everything in sight,” said a man matching James' description in one video posted under the name prophet oftruth88.

James, 62, is the subject of a massive manhunt following Tuesday's rush hour mass shooting in a Sunset Park subway station.

A gas-masked gunman detonated two smoke grenades before he fired at least 33 gunshots, hitting 10 straphangers, NYPD officials said. A further 13 people suffered injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to falls to panic attacks as the passengers were caught in a bloody scramble to exit an N train, police said.

As authorities try to track down James, his social media posts are part of a sprawling NYPD investigation into what led to the attack, said Mayor Eric Adams.

Adams is called out by name and criticized in several videos by the now-closed YouTube account. The potential threats prompted NYPD officials to increase Adams' security, although the mayor himself said he hadn't watched the videos.

"I was briefed by the team," he told WNYC on Wednesday.

The videos that James appears to have posted could help investigators find motivation behind the attacks, if he committed them.

James appears to have hopped from city to city — a fact that dovetails with the YouTube account, which details travel. He has ties to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio, authorities said.

A U-Haul van connected to James and the attack was rented in Philadelphia and the key to it was found in the subway car Tuesday, leaading investigators to connect the man to the shooting.

His neighbors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin described him as gruff and standoffish, the New York Times reported.

But the YouTube videos indicate James, or whoever posted them, has a longer history in New York City. Indeed, the man in the videos claimed to be within the city's mental health system for decades.

In several videos, he calls out mental health officials by name and inveighs racist and bigoted invectives against them.

The online attacks were tied with Mayor Eric Adams' announcement that he'd deploy more mental health workers onto the subways.

“There’s no help, it’s going to fail,” the man said in a Feb. 20 video, before claiming social workers are “homosexual predators.”

“They made me worse,” he said in a March 1 video. “They made me even more dangerous. These are the people Eric Adams wants to send out to help the homeless and whatever the case may be.”

The bile in the videos isn't confined to Adams and mental health workers.

At various points, the man endorses 9/11 conspiracy theories, refers to a Black woman in derogatory terms and spews hate against LGBTQ people.

In a characteristically rambling video endorsing "sensible violence," he poked fun at African American names and alternated invective directed at both white and Black people, among others.

Another video appears to blame Black shooting victims Trayvon Martin and Daunte Wright for their deaths.

“It’s the story of every other Black male that has been shot and killed by police,” he said. “Again, the story is you play stupid games, you wage stupid crimes, you can f------ be shot, if you pull away, you run away from police, because you got warrants — and you don’t want to face those warrants, you want to run — then you end up f—--- shot. I’m not crying for you, for that.”

Later, he says, “These white motherf------ are going to kill you, these white motherf----- are going to exterminate you, because that’s what they do.”

Other videos eerily echo details of the subway attack.

The man posted a video of a rented Penske van on March 18, when he said he was on the way to the "City of Brotherly Love."

In another video highlighted in a tweet by Sarah Belle Lin, a former Patch intern, the man wears a construction vest. Police officials said the subway shooter donned a green-orange construction vest.