The 62- year-old man who police described as a"person of interest"in the Brooklyn shelter shooting on Tuesday is now being considered a suspect, the New York Police Department said on Wednesday. 

An ferocious quest is underway for the man, linked as Frank James, who police say is responsible for the attack. It wasn't incontinently clear what substantiation led to the change in his status. 

 The manhunt comes a day after a marksman set off bank grenades and fired a handgun 33 times on a crowded shelter train making its way toward the 36th Street station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The attack left 29 people injured, including 10 who were shot, though none of the injuries appear to be life- hanging, officers said. 

 The motive of the firing isn't yet known. The attack isn't being delved as an act of terrorism but authorities haven't ruled out anything, NYPD manager Keechant Sewell said. 

 Investigators plant a Glock 9 mm handgun, three extended magazines, two exploded bank grenades, twonon-detonated bank grenades, a hatchet and keys to aU-Haul van at the scene, NYPD Chief of Investigators James Essig said. 

 A credit card that was used to rent theU-Haul was also plant, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Two officers told CNN they believe the gun jammed during the firing. 

 TheU-Haul van was rented by James, police said, connecting him to the incident. The van was recovered near the station and has been cleared by the NYPD's lemon team, police said. 

 James has addresses in Wisconsin as well as Philadelphia, where theU-Haul was rented, Essig said. 

 He and his family didn't incontinently respond to CNN's request for comment. 

The shelter firing represents a long- stressed agony script for New York City, which relies heavily on its mass conveyance system. Subway ridership cratered during the Covid epidemic as numerous workers stayed home, and ridership has not returned to itspre-pandemic situations, in part due to heedfulness over an increase in violence on the conveyance system. 

 +  How the firing unfolded 

People aboard the train auto on Tuesday morning said bank filled the auto and shots chimed out, causing people to push their way to the other side of the train in fear and confusion. 

 Hourari Benkada, 27, who was shot in the reverse of the knee, said he thinks he was sitting coming to the shooter. 


 Speaking from a sanitarium bed Tuesday, Benkada said he would gotten into the last auto of the N train and sat next to a man with a duffel bag who appeared to be wearing an MTA vest. The man let off a" bank lemon," said Benkada, a housekeeping director at the New Yorker Hotel. 

"And all you see (is) bank-- black bank. going off, and also people bum- rushing to the reverse,"Benkada said."This pregnant woman was in front of me. I was trying to help her. I did not know there were shots at first. I just allowed it was a black bank lemon. 

"She said,'I am pregnant with a baby.'I hugged her. And also the bum- rush continued. I got pushed, and that is when I got shot in the reverse of my knee."

 The firing started about 20 seconds after the train took off from the 59th Street station and felt like it lasted for nearly 2 twinkles, Benkada said. Benkada heard other people in pain, but could not see them or the suspect because of the bank, he said. 

 Substantiation collection for the incident"will take some time," according to Michael Driscoll, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office. He added that he was thankful for the residers and observers who have formerly stepped forward with information. 

 Investigators have cell phone videotape from an viewer that shows the suspect, a law enforcement source told CNN. 

 Within the station, surveillance videotape may not be available. A primary review indicates there was some kind of malfunction with the camera system at the station, Mayor Eric Adams told WCBS Radio. 

 The MTA system has nearly cameras, including nearly 600 cameras on the Brooklyn section where the attack took place, MTA President and CEO Janno Lieber told CNN's Jake Tapper. 

"We are going to work with the NYPD to capture all that videotape to find out where this miscreant may have come in or out of the system,"Lieber said."And we are also just reviewing with everybody who's involved, all of the information."

+  Suspect talked about mass blowups in rambling videos 

James, the suspect in the firing, has been linked to multiple rambling vids posted on a YouTube channel. A screenshot from one of the vids was used on an NYPD Crimestoppers leaflet seeking information about the firing. 

 James talked about violence and mass blowups in the vids, including one uploaded Monday in which he said he is allowed about killing people who have presumably hurt him. 

"I have been through a lot of s ** t, where I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to watch people die right in front of my f**king face incontinently. But I allowed about the fact that, hey man, I do not want to go to no f**king captivity,"he said. 

In another videotape posted last week, James, who's Black, harangues about abuse in churches and racism in the plant, using misogynistic and racist language. 

 Numerous of the vids that James uploaded included references to violence, including at a set group of people he believed had blackened him, in addition to broad societal and ethnical groups that he appeared to detest. 

 In another videotape posted last month to the same channel, James said that he'dpost-traumatic stress. In that videotape, James said he left his home in Milwaukee on March 20. During the trip eastward, he said he was heading to the" peril zone."

"You know, it's driving a lot of negative studies of course,"he said in the videotape."I do have a severe case ofpost-traumatic stress."

A$ price for information leading to the arrest of the suspect has been offered, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which put up the plutocrat with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the New York City Police Foundation. 

(Source://CNN)