By The Diary
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in connection with a shooting on a New York City Subway train in Queens that left a 15-year-old paralyzed and connected to a critical brace.
The suspect – whose name has not been revealed because he is a minor – was arrested Wednesday afternoon in A long way Rockaway in connection with the altercation that occurred two days earlier on a Ny-bound A line car, as it approached the Eightieth St station in Ozone Park.
According to the NYPD, that fifteen-year-old had already survived another shooting earlier this year. Police sources indicate that the detainee is charged charges of attempted murder, assault and weapons possession as an accomplice for having accompanied the shooter on Monday around 6:00 pm. Likewise, it is suspected that he was the one who shot and wounded the same victim last February. It was not immediately clear if the charges he now faces include that first shooting.
Now the victim received shots in the neck and back in front of several other passengers and miraculously no one else was injured. The young man remains in the Sanatorium Jamaica and connected to a synthetic respirator, according to his relatives, who They fear that he will never fully recover, stood out Day to day Files.
One of the bullets fired during Monday’s incident hit the teenager’s spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, his mother said. While the family watches at his bedside, the young man can only communicate through handwritten notes.
According to police sources, the victim was on board the Metro when he saw the teenager who had shot him in the leg on February 7 during an altercation that occurred inside a building on Everdell Av.
In March, the police arrested the perpetrator of that first shooting – who was 15 years old at the time – and charged him; however, the minor He was released after the victim refused to testify, which left the prosecution without a viable case, the sources explained. The file relating to the February shooting remains open.
When the victim confronted the suspect in the February shooting on the train on Monday, the two teenagers got into a fight until a friend of the suspect grabbed his partner’s gun and opened fire, wounding the victim twice. No further arrests have been announced at this time and the investigation remains open. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Mayor’s reaction
“I am relieved to know that he is expected to survive,” said the Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Twitter/X on Monday in reaction to the shooting victim. “This was an unacceptable incident; Violence of this kind has no place in our Subway system, and my administration is committed to doing everything in our power to ensure that all New Yorkers – especially children – travel safely on their daily commutes.”
MTA President and CEO Janno Lieber expressed confidence that police would find the shooter. “The most important thing is this: we have video. Every New York City Subway car has a video camera,” he said.
Crime on the NYC Subway has risen in 2026, after last year was the “safest” in a long time. Violence remains constant in stations, Metro cars and MTA buses. In general there are frequent accidents and random attacks that mix various problems that the city has been dealing with for years, such as “homelessness and substance abuse“, he summarized cnn at the end of 2024.
In parallel, Even though NYC reports record low homicides and shootings, violence with firearms and knives remains constant. Some victims are hit at random on streets, schools, public transportation, buildings, businesses and even inside hospitals. The clashes are usually linked to battles between gang members for territory and Suspects sometimes incriminate themselves by bragging and posting about their crimes on social media.
The range of times, areas and ages of the victims is wide: Kaori Patterson Moore, a 7-month-old baby, died in Brooklyn in broad daylight on April 1; and Edgar Spence, 78, on the night of Thursday the 16th in the Bronx. Hours earlier that same day, fifteen-year-old Jaden Pierre was brutally beaten and shot to death at point-blank range in a playground in Queens.
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