Blood from a gunshot wound soaked one man's pants. Another yelled that he might die. A woman pressed a wound on her lower back. Others wept. “I saw people who were the most scared I’ve ever seen,” one Brooklyn resident told USA TODAY.
, he told Good Morning America. He saw smoke first. When the train stopped in the tunnel, he said, he heard gunshots."It was three or four quick 'Pop, pop, pops,'" he saidThe smoke and gunfire fueled a sense of panic. Benkada said people began “bum-rushing” to the back of the car.
"That scene was really horrible,” he said in a CNN interview. “The shooting felt like it lasted for nearly 2 or maybe 3 minutes.”Train pulls into the station. Shooter flees. Social media photos and videos show bystanders wrapping shirts around wounds. Others tended to victims slumped over in the carsome offering clothing to help stanch bleeding wounds. “Can someone help me get off?” a man said in one video reposted by the New York Times.
Subway staff urged people to board Carcamo’s R train and ride to the next stop. The crowded train left and headed toward 25th Street station. Among them was Javier, who said passengers wept and prayed as they rode away from the scene.
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