NYC Under 'Active-Shooter Situation' After Subway Attack: Hochul

NEW YORK CITY — A gas-masked man behind a mass shooting in a Brooklyn subway car could continue to terrorize New York City, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

New Yorkers need to be vigilant and alert that the "dangerous and depraved" gunman is running free, Hochul said Tuesday.

"This is an active-shooter situation right now in the City of New York," she said.

Sixteen straphangers were injured Tuesday morning after the as-yet-unidentified gunman opened a gas canister in an N train and started shooting, authorities said. Bullets struck 10 people and five are in critical but stable condition, police said.

The gunman — who wore a gas mask and construction vest — fled from 36th Street station at Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, authorities said.

He left behind a scene of chaos and carnage — pools of blood on the platform, straphangers lying on the ground, smoke billowing from the subway car and screams of frightened New Yorkers.

Hochul said the attacker shattered a "normal day" for New Yorkers heading to work and school.

"That sense of tranquility and normalness was ... brutally disrupted by an individual so cold-hearted and depraved of heart that they had no caring about the individuals that they assaulted as they simply went about their daily lives," she said.

Police will provide more reports about the shooter as Tuesday goes on, Hochul said.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the suspect is a Black man, about 5 feet 5 inches tall with a heavy build, who wore a green construction-type vest and a gray hooded sweatshirt.

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