2 taken into custody after shots fired inside Manhattan subway station
Two people were taken into custody after gunshots were fired inside a Manhattan subway station on Monday night.
The NYPD said no one was injured in the shooting at the busy 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal station in Times Square.
The latest on the police investigation
Police said they received a 911 call for shots fired just before 8:30 p.m., adding the shooting stemmed from a dispute at the station. They also said bystanders told them two men discharged a gun on the mezzanine level on the A-C-E subway line.
Investigators taped off an area at the station and collected evidence, including a bullet shell casing.
No charges were immediately filed against the suspects.
"It happened so fast"
Eddie Conner, a performer at the station at the time of the shooting, said he heard a gunshot and said the sound echoed throughout the subway station, sparking chaos and fear.
"We just heard a shot in the hallway and everybody ducked, everybody started running, everybody started screaming," Conner said. "It was either a warning shot or maybe he aimed to miss, but everybody was scared. It happened so fast, I'm just glad I didn't see anybody get hit."
He said he wasn't all that surprised by the gun violence, adding in an open space like a subway station you only have three options -- run, drop down to the ground, or hide behind a column.
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