Brooklyn Subway Shooter Is A Black Supremacist; Faces Terror Charges

Keneci Channel

The 62-year-old suspect Frank James opened fire on commuters at the Brooklyn Subway Tuesday, after setting off a smoke grenade.  Ten people were shot, and 29 people overall were injured during the rampage. He was armed with a 9mm Glock and reportedly fired off over 30 rounds.

Police initially had trouble tracking down James because surveillance cameras at the 36th Street station where the incident occurred had malfunctioned. They later determined James had blended in with commuters and took an R train to the next stop at 25th Street, where cameras also weren’t working. 

Shortly after slipping out of that station, James boarded a B67 bus and then was back on the rails about 45 minutes later at 9:15 a.m. when he walked into an F train station at Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street in Park Slope, according to police officials.

Hours after the shooting Tuesday, federal agents conducted a search warrant at a storage unit registered to James in Philadelphia and inside found a cache of weapons and ammunition capable of committing mass carnage. 

The items include 9mm bullets, a threaded 9mm pistol barrel that allows for a silencer or suppressor to be attached, targets and .223 caliber ammunition, which is made to be used with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

They also raided the Airbnb where he’d been staying and found an empty magazine for a Glock handgun, a taser, a high-capacity rifle magazine and a blue smoke canister.

After more than 20 hours of police hunt for the suspect, he apparently called the police on himself Wednesday morning -- then calmly went for an afternoon stroll through the East Village.

“You know I think you’re looking for me," the suspect reportedly told the police on the phone. "I’m seeing my picture all over the news and I’ll be around this McDonalds… I want to clear things up.”

The suspect was however reportedly not at the McDonalds when police arrived.

A couple of witnesses reportedly spotted the suspect walking through the East Village where he briefly sat down at an outdoor dining shed and charged his phone at a Link NYC hub. The witnesses later flagged down a pair of cops.

NYPD then swooped in and handcuffed the suspect just before 2 p.m. on First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. “I’m Frank, I’m the person you’re looking for," he reportedly told the cops as they arrested him. "I’m surprised it took so long.”

Federal prosecutors hit James with a charge of committing terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, which could send him to prison for life if he’s convicted.

“My fellow New Yorkers. We got him, we got him," Mayor Eric Adams said at an afternoon press conference celebrating the arrest. "I cannot thank the men and women of the New York City Police Department enough, as well as our federal agents, our state police, our first responders —  from the 911 operators, to the various men and women from our medical professionals. We got him.”

James had a history of incendiary black supremacist social media posts. He ranted about coming race wars, gun violence, homeless people, bomb making and “homosexual predators.”

In one Facebook post, James lamented recently-confirmed black Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's marriage to a white man. “She married the devil,” he said.

In another racially charged post, James wrote: "They’re white, you’re not. They’re doing that to each other? What do they think they’re going to do to you? It’s just a matter of time before these white motherfuckers say, ‘Hey listen, enough is enough, these niggas gotta go.’ What’re you going to do? You gonna fight. And guess what? You gonna die.”

James also ranted in a video posted March 27, against homeless people in New York City’s subway system and criticized Mayor Eric Adams.

“Eric Adams, Eric Adams, what the fuck, what are you doing, brother? James said in the video. "What’s happening with this homeless situation? I got on the E train, every fucking car … every car I went to was loaded with homeless people.”

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