.williams_paige reports on Frank James, the man charged with carrying out the Sunset Park attack, and the evidence that chronicles James’s conspiracy theories, grievances, and struggles with mental health.
Twenty-nine hours into the citywide search for the man who shot ten people on an express train in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning, the N.Y.P.D. Crime Stoppers hotline received a tip, called in from a McDonald’s in the East Village. The tipster was the suspect himself, Frank Robert James, who then ambled off. Photos of James, who is sixty-two, had been circulating widely. They showed a heavyset Black man with a shaved or bald head, and dark circles beneath his eyes. At around 1:40on Wednesday, N.Y.P.
On August 8, 2019, the “Prophet,” saying that it was his sixtieth birthday, posted the first video in a six-part series, titled “phase one of my NY trip.” It opens in the Milwaukee airport at three-thirty in the morning. In recent years, James lived, or has lived, in the Milwaukee area, and at one point in Racine County. In the video, the narrator claims both that he has missed his flight and that the airline has cancelled it because of “fucking.
The man appeared to blame Mayor Adams and others in the New York area for not helping him with his mental problems. Thethat James had been a patient at a mental-health facility in New Jersey called Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services and that he once said, “My goal at Bridgeway in 1997 was to get off Social Security and go back to fucking work.” Bridgeway could not be reached for comment, but one of the folders visible in at least one video by the “Prophet” was slugged “BRIDGEWAY.
When the train pulled into the next station, at Thirty-sixth Street, in Sunset Park, passengers streamed, coughing and bleeding, onto the platform. Some collapsed, dazed and losing large amounts of blood. Others crossed over to an R train, which left the station, carrying them to safety. James was believed to have been among them; when the train next stopped, at Twenty-fifth Street, he allegedly slipped into a city of more than eight million people.
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