Police arrest suspect in New York subway shooting  

The New York police on Tuesday arrested Andrew Abdullah, 25, suspected in the fatal weekend shooting of a New York City subway rider.

Abdullah was arrested in the slaying of Brooklyn resident Daniel Enriquez, 48, who was shot to death while he rode in a subway car on Sunday morning, a New York Police Department spokesperson said.

The shooting of Daniel Enriquez is less than two months after a mass shooting on the mass transit system,

Abdullah was photographed walking into the NYPD’s 5th Precinct station in handcuffs with a police detective escort. An NYPD Twitter message also confirmed the man had been “placed into custody.”

No details about his arrest were immediately available.

In a Tweet earlier on Tuesday, the department said police were searching for Abdullah as a suspect in the shooting and posted a photograph of him, asking for the public’s help in locating him.

Enriquez, who worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc, was riding a train crossing a bridge from Brooklyn into lower Manhattan when he was shot in the chest without provocation, authorities said.

Enriquez was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. Authorities say the suspect fled the train after it pulled into the Canal Street station.

Sunday’s attack adds further pressure on Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain and Brooklyn borough president who made crime and public safety a focus of his campaign for the office last year.

Reuters/Zainab Sa’id