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Subway shooter arrested

New York police arrest suspect in fatal weekend subway shooting

May 24 (Reuters) - A man suspected in the fatal weekend shooting of a New York City subway rider, less than two months after a mass shooting on the mass transit system, was taken into custody on Tuesday, police said.
New York police arrest suspect in fatal weekend subway shooting A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer watches cars in gridlock outside Trump Tower in New York, New York, US, 25 September 2018. (Photo: EPA-EFE / JOHN TAGGART)

Andrew Abdullah, 25, was arrested in the slaying of Brooklyn resident Daniel Enriquez, 48, who was shot to death while he rode in a subway car on Sunday morning, a New York Police Department spokesperson said.

He was pictured by a Reuters photographer walking into the NYPD's 5th Precinct station in handcuffs with a police detective escort.

No details about his arrest were immediately available.

 

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles and Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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