Overview
- Police say a 15-year-old was shot in the torso on a Manhattan-bound A train near the 80th Street stop in Ozone Park during Monday’s evening rush, leaving him stable at Jamaica Hospital.
- Detectives are searching for multiple teenagers in the case, and two other teens questioned as persons of interest were released with no arrests announced.
- Investigators released a photo of a person they believe is connected to the shooting and asked the public to help identify the individual.
- Riders ducked to the floor as shots rang out before the train reached the platform, and A service in South Queens was briefly halted during the evidence search, with no other injuries reported.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting unacceptable and Queens DA Melinda Katz visited the scene, as reporters note a string of recent teen-involved shootings even as NYPD data show small year-over-year declines in transit crime and citywide shootings.