Suspect in Brooklyn subway attack in custody and faces federal terrorism charge

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Updated April 13, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. EDT|Published April 13, 2022 at 9:36 a.m. EDT

On April 12, a man opened fire in a subway station at rush-hour in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Residents have mixed feelings about getting back on the trains. (Video: Alden Nussar, Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)

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NEW YORK — Authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man accused of shooting 10 people aboard a Brooklyn subway train a day earlier and charged him with a federal terrorism offense.

The arrest capped off a frenzied 29-hour period during which law enforcement officials said Frank R. James — a 62-year-old man who had posted a series of angry, bigoted videos online — filled a subway car with smoke, fired nearly three dozen rounds and then seemingly vanished, leaving behind terrorized commuters, a shaken city and a sprawling investigation.