Mass Shootings

Signing an executive order, Gov. Kathy Hochul will be requiring that every county and New York City develop plans to identify and confront threats of domestic terrorism, including racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists. These plans must be submitted by the end of the year.

When a shooter attacked a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend, its security guard tried to stop him. At least one of his shots hit the gunman, but it didn’t stop the deadly rampage because the gunman was wearing body armor.

Officials say they are investigating the shooting Saturday afternoon as a racially motivated hate crime.

Two law enforcement officials say the person who tipped off police to the whereabouts of the man wanted in the Brooklyn subway shooting was the suspect himself. Frank R. James called the New York Police Department's tip line Wednesday to say he was inside a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan and to tell authorities to come and get him, the law enforcement officials said.

The NYPD has arrested Frank R. James, 62, a suspect wanted in connection to a shooting inside a subway train in Brooklyn. He was believed to have acted alone. Authorities believed he acted alone.

The NYPD has identified a man that detectives are looking for who may be connected to the mass shooting that unfolded on a crowded subway train in Brooklyn at the height of the morning rush hour on Tuesday. Officers recovered a Glock 17 9mm semiautomatic pistol, three extended-capacity magazines, four smoke grenades, a hatchet, a container of gasoline, and a key to a U-Haul rental van, a top police official said.

Kenneth Foote-Smith was on the subway train when a man opened fire on Tuesday morning. He described the terror the passengers felt as it unfolded.

A gunman wearing a gas mask and a reflective safety vest shot 10 people inside a Brooklyn subway station during the Tuesday morning rush hour.