{O/C} The nearly 30-hour feverish search for the dangerous suspect who opened fire on a subway train in New York has culminated in the arrest of the suspect, 62-year-old Frank James.
This, after the police cast their net wide in hunting for the attacker.
While residents are heaving a sigh of relief, the police are trying to come up with a motive amid a sea of details and evidence.
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{Soundbite} KATHY HOCHUL, New York Governor: The suspect has been arrested.
A collective sigh of relief and unadulterated joy after New York's police have taken into custody 62-year-old Frank James, the perpetrator of Tuesday's morning rush hour attack on a Brooklyn subway train, near the 36th Street Station at around 1:30 p.m. local time.
Oddly enough, James was nabbed on a tip-off that the police believe was made by James himself, saying he could be found near a McDonald's on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Among the biggest questions about his calm and callous demeanour: Why did he provide the tip-off himself?
After all, he was arrested without a struggle following the attack that had every New Yorker enduring like a cat on a hot tin roof.
{Soundbite} KEECHANT SEWELL, N.Y.P.D. Commissioner: We were able to shrink his world quickly. There was nowhere left for him to run.
Videos from surveillance cameras show James entering the subway system, clad in an orange working jacket and a yellow hard hat that maintenance workers don.
Witnesses recalled that James only uttered "oops" before detonating smoke grenades and the 33 shots were fired off.
Now, rants in videos he posted on social media may help connect the dots to his motive.
Profanities and expletives are rampant in his videos as he thumbed his nose at New York's mayor, blaming him for the city's running sore -- homelessness.
He also touched upon violence and his endless struggles with mental illness.
And in a video posted a day prior to the attack, James upbraided those who committed crimes against Black people, saying the table would only be turned were certain individuals purged from their "comfort zone".
Raised in New York, the bigoted perpetrator had been arrested 9 times for a litany of low-level crimes, such as criminal sex acts, possession of burglary tools and larceny.
Tuesday's attack saw 10 passengers being shot and 29 wounded, including children and teenagers headed to school.
Investigators are now trying to determine whether dispiriting setbacks in his life triggered the attack, given he bounced among low-paying factory and maintenance jobs.
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