NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A teenager was taken into custody Thursday in connection with Monday afternoon’s shooting at a Bronx subway station that left a bystander dead and five others wounded, sources said.
The teen, who is a minor, has not yet been charged in the case, according to the sources.
Word of the apprehension comes two days after the NYPD released photos of a pair of suspects being sought in the shooting at the Mount Eden Avenue 4 station.
An argument between two groups of teens around 4:30 p.m. led to a hail of bullets as the train doors opened at the elevated station, sending passengers running off the train and people on the platform scrambling for safety.
Witnesses described hearing at least six shots and seeing sparks flashing as bullets ricocheted off the walls of the train.
A 35-year-old man, identified as Obed Beltran-Sanchez, was shot and killed, according to police, who said he was a bystander.
The wounded included a 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old boy and three adults, ages 28, 29 and 71. Some of the victims were believed to have been involved in the dispute and others were bystanders waiting for the train, police said, describing four of the injuries as serious.
"We don’t believe this was a random shooting. We do not believe that this was an individual indiscriminately firing into a train or a train station," the NYPD’s chief of transit, Michael Kemper, said at a news conference.
Police haven’t rule out the possibility that more than one person fired shots. It’s unclear if the person taken into custody Thursday is a suspected shooter.
Calling in to 1010 WINS after the shooting, Mayor Eric Adams touted the work police have done to get guns off the street and reduce violence. But he acknowledged that more needs to be done to make people comfortable riding a system still coming back from major ridership losses during the worst pandemic years.
“Not only people must be actually safe, but what we have done in lowering crime, they must feel safe,” the mayor said, “and something like this can send shockwaves throughout our entire system.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.