The victim was placed in the last car of a Q-line train to Manhattan, NYPD chief Kenneth Corey told a news conference Sunday afternoon. New York City police later identified him as Daniel Enriquez, 48, of Brooklyn.
Officers responded to a report of a man shot at a Canal Street station in Lower Manhattan around 11:42 a.m. and on arrival found Enriquez with a gunshot wound to the torso. First aid was provided and he was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he died of his injuries, Corey said.
Enriquez was shot in the chest at some point while the car was traveling on the Manhattan Bridge from the last stop in Brooklyn to Canal Street, according to a law enforcement official.
NYPD officers boarded the “Q” train on patrol three different times before the shooting happened on Sunday, the official said.
The shooting suspect, who escaped from the train when he arrived at Canal St., remains at large and has not yet been arrested. Corey described the suspect as a “dark-skinned black man with a beard” who was last seen wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, gray tracksuits and white sneakers.
While there were other people in the same car, Enriquez was the only one injured, Corey said.
Witnesses told NYPD investigators that the shooting suspect was walking back and forth in the same car and “unprovokedly pulled out a gun and fired at Enriquez up close as the train crossed the Manhattan Bridge,” Corey said.
Investigators watched surveillance footage and questioned witnesses, but Corey asked the public to call the NYPD for any relevant information.
The shooter and the victim did not interact on the train before the shooting and there does not appear to be a dispute, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN.
When the doors opened on Canal Street, the shooter escaped from the subway car and left the station, the official said.
CNN contacted the office of New York Mayor Eric Adams for comment.
CNN’s Natalie Andes and Liam Riley contributed to this report.
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