A man is dead, shot in the head as he rode a Number one subway car in Chelsea Tuesday night. Police say the gunman started shooting on the subway car as it approached 23rd Street. Police are looking for two suspects. Eyewitness News' Jim Dolan reports.
You can just imagine the bedlam underground on 23rd Street at Seventh Avenue. This is how it started: Just before 9:00 pm two men were seen walking slowly from one end of a crowded subway car to the other. As the car got to the station at 23rd Street and the door opened, one of the two men, without saying a word, pulled a gun and shot two shots into the victim. That victim fell to the platform as passengers panicked and the gunman ran.
Police swarmed the subway station tonight, looking for clues and maybe a weapon after someone fired the shots on the Number one car at point blank range hitting the victim in the head.
Suddenly on a hot, packed subway platform there was panic underground. Passengers in other cars and on the platform ran and hid under seats for protection.
What the police have put together so far is that both the victim and the suspects got on the train at 17th Street at opposite sides of the car. Police don't know yet if they knew each other, or if they were total strangers and this was a random attack.
Police are looking for suspects, but with very limited descriptions.
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