Inside the 30-hour search for the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect. Here's how authorities pieced together evidence to identify the suspected shooter -- and what led up to his arrest.
The items, left behind in a bloody crime scene at a Brooklyn subway station Tuesday morning, offered investigators some of their first clues as they worked to figure out who had opened fire on dozens of unsuspecting New Yorkers commuting to school and work.In a matter of hours, those discoveries led to a person of interest. And Wednesday, as more evidence piled up, authorities named the man a suspect, urging the public to contact police if they saw him.
How police found and arrested NYC subway shooting suspect 01:33Keys, a card, a jacket and a gunA credit card investigators found on the scene offered a key piece of the puzzle they were tasked with solving. The card had been used to rent a U-Haul van that authorities believed was connected to the shooting, two law enforcement sources said. Internal NYPD emails viewed by CNN Tuesday did not say how authorities believed the van was connected.
He sat next to the alleged NYC subway shooter. Survivor details moment from hospital bed 06:34James called in a tip on himself, sources sayJames was taken into custody roughly 30 hours after the shooting. He called Crime Stoppers Wednesday and essentially said he saw his face on the news and knew he was wanted, two law enforcement sources told CNN.What is the NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline? He said he was in a McDonald's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the sources said.
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