• NYPD named Frank James a "person of interest" in the tragic subway shooting in Brooklyn Tuesday morning.
  • Police found a credit card and U-Haul rental key at the scene and later located the van on Kings Highway.
  • James was the renter of the van, police say, and investigators are working to his connection to the incident, "if any."

The New York Police Department named Frank R. James, 62, a "person of interest" in the mass shooting on New York subway Tuesday morning.

Around 8:30 a.m. local time, a suspect detonated two smoke grenades and opened fire as a Manhattan-bound N train pulled into the 36th Street subway station in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, authorities said.

Police said the suspect fired at least 33 times, hitting 10 people in the incident. More than a dozen people were injured in the panic that ensued, and some were treated for smoke inhalation.

Police recovered a 9-mm handgun, three extended magazines, and a hatchet at the scene, as well as a U-Haul rental key, gasoline, and  consumer-grade fireworks.

Shortly after 5 p.m. local time, law enforcement located a U-Haul cargo van for the key on Kings Highway in Brooklyn they believe is connected to the suspect. A law enforcement source told CNN that the NYPD's bomb squad is responding to the scene.

CNN reported that investigators identified the suspect in the shooting after finding a credit card at the scene that was used to rent the U-Haul van currently under investigation.

The credit card purportedly belonged to James, who has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia. Authorities are investigating his connection to the incident, "if any," authorities said during a press briefing, and are currently "endeavoring to locate him."

 

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