NEW YORK — A man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon on a subway platform in Midtown Manhattan. Police said the shooting followed a dispute, and the gunman fled the station on foot.
The shooting happened at about 12:21 p.m. at the Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street station, on the platform for northbound E trains. The station is also served by the B and D lines. In the NYPD’s account, an unidentified individual walked up to the man on the platform, displayed a firearm and fired, striking him once in the chest.
The man, in his 30s, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. First responders had performed CPR on the platform and taken him there in cardiac arrest, according to the New York Post. Police have not released his name.
An NYPD spokesperson told the Post at the scene that the shooting was targeted.
Nothing random between these two individuals.
Whether the two men knew each other, and what the dispute was about, police have not said.
The NYPD, in a post on X, said the gunman fled on foot, heading northbound on Seventh Avenue. He was wearing a red tracksuit and a black vest when last seen, with a black face mask and a backpack, police said. The department also released surveillance photos of the man. Tips can go to @NYPDTips by message, or to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
In a statement reported by NBC New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s chief security officer, Michael Kemper, said the shooting grew out of a dispute. “This was evidently a dispute between three individuals that ended tragically, and we have coordinated with the NYPD on the investigation from the earliest minutes — especially to retrieve video from platform and train car cameras,” Kemper said. “It is fortunate nobody outside the fight was hurt,” he added, saying “guns have no place in transit.”
A witness told the Post that an E train had just pulled into the station and opened its doors when two shots rang out about eight seconds apart, sending riders running for cover. “Everybody was running,” said Mauricio Marroquin, who was on his way home to Queens after a morning shift. Bystanders started chest compressions on the victim before paramedics arrived, the Post reported.
The killing was the seventh murder in the city’s transit system this year, the Post reported. Transit murders are up 75% compared with the same period last year, when there were four, according to the data cited by the Post.
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