Stray Bullet Shooting Outside Penn Station Raises Concerns About Safety As Commuters Return To Work
The shooting happened Monday afternoon outside the entrance on 31st Street and 7th Avenue.
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The shooting happened Monday afternoon outside the entrance on 31st Street and 7th Avenue.
Police are searching for a suspect they said opened fire, but missed his intended target and shot an innocent bystander outside Penn Station.
Video shows water dripping from the ceiling over a passageway.
According to police, one suspect held the train doors open while another suspect tried to take a 29-year-old man's iPhone from his hands.
The incident happened at around 9:30 p.m. No one else was injured.
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Officers found the victim at the bottom of a stairway around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Starting Sunday, both Amtrak and NJ Transit concourses will close overnight on a daily basis.
Passengers were packed together like sardines in a can at Penn Station, a routine of delays and cancellations that's become par for the course for commuters.
NJ Transit blamed the delays on power issues related to overhead wires outside Penn Station, which are owned by Amtrak.
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It happened around 6:45 p.m. Monday.
A piece of broken rail was found at the Jamaica station, but it's not clear if it had anything to do with the derailment.
According to the MTA, the train left Penn Station just before 9 p.m. Friday night and was headed for Babylon when two cars came off the tracks.
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LIRR is currently reporting 20-minute delays and multiple canceled trains.
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The victim was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in stable condition.
Passengers took to Twitter to vent their frustration about the delays and subsequent crowds.
Up to 30 minute delays are being reported.
