At a news conference Monday, Mr. Adams said he wanted to introduce gun detection technology to the city’s subway and was working with the NYPD to identify whether a traffic officer should have been in the city. station. No officers were present at the time of the shooting.
In January, Michelle Go, a 40-year-old Deloitte employee, was fatally pushed by a stranger in front of an R train from the Times Square subway platform. Last month, a man opened fire on a moving N-train car in Brooklyn, injuring 23 people, though none died.
Although fatal incidents are rare, the city has so far reported 150 assaults inside the subway in the first three months of this year. This is the maximum during this three-month period since 1997, according to data from the Metropolitan Transport Authority.
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