CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) – Police say the man wanted for the apparently deadly shooting aboard a subway Q train bound for Manhattan over the weekend will surrender on Tuesday.
The suspect, Andrew Abdullah, arranged his surrender with his Brooklyn pastor, who visited the fifth precinct and resolved the details.
CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the suspect was already under arrest.
On Tuesday morning, police officers went down to his girlfriend’s apartment at 6 a.m., but the suspect was not there.
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Authorities say 25-year-old Abdullah, who has about 20 previous arrests, was the man seen walking the subway car before shooting Daniel Enriquez, 48, in the chest, killing him.
Abdullah has previous arrests for assault, robbery, threats and major robbery, in addition to three cases that are still pending.
Police say he was arrested on April 22 for allegedly possessing a stolen motorcycle, and that while the Brooklyn District Attorney asked for a $ 15,000 bail, the judge set a nominal bail of $ 1,000. $.
He also has a pending case since June 2, 2021, for criminal contempt for violating a domestic protection order, and the third pending case comes from March 24, 2021, when he was arrested for assault.
Abdullah was convicted of attempted second-degree murder in 2017 as part of a 83-year federal indictment against members of the Harlem Fast Money and Nine Block street gangs.
He was sentenced to three years in federal prison and was released in 2019.
Police say Abdullah killed Enriquez, a Goldman Sachs financial investigator, without any provocation while the victim was going to lunch.
New York City police believe the suspect handed the gun to a homeless man as he fled Canal Street station. The homeless man, in turn, sold the gun for $ 10 to a third person, who reported it to police.
Mayor Eric Adams is proposing gun detection technology as a way to stop the flow of weapons.
“We need to make sure we are deploying our staff properly,” he said. “We’re going to do an analysis to see what we’ve lost. It would be easier if we could use some of this technology that we’re looking for and make sure we look at those areas that we’ve lost. That’s the goal. We’re going to do that. that’s fine. “
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Weapon detection technology will not be available at all stations, and the subway line in this case is not a high crime line or area.
It is unclear if any of these measures would have stopped this shooting.
Anyone with additional information about this incident should call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish at 1-888-57-TRACK (74782). All calls will remain anonymous.
The public can also post their tips by logging into the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by posting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
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