One person was killed and five wounded following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at a New York City subway station on Monday at the start of the evening rush hour, authorities said. We do not believe that this was an individual indiscriminately firing into a train or a train station," NYPD's chief of transit, Michael Kemper, said at a news conference. The gunfire erupted when the train pulled into the station, Kemper said, striking people on the platform. Fear of violence on the subway system spiked after a string of incidents in recent years, but overall, crime in New York City has been plummeting since a surge at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Killings on the subway system also dropped last year, from 10 to 5.

Source: The Telegraph February 13, 2024 12:14 UTC