Brooklyn Subway shooter pleads non guilty in court

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NEW YORK — Frank James, the man blamed for starting to shoot inside a train in Brooklyn last month and evading police for almost 30 hours thereafter, argued not blameworthy Friday to psychological warfare and gun charges.

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Brooklyn Subway shooter pleads non guilty in court

NEW YORK — Frank James, the man blamed for starting to shoot inside a train in Brooklyn last month and evading police for almost 30 hours thereafter, argued not blameworthy Friday to psychological warfare and gun charges.

Showing up in government court in Brooklyn, James, 62, seemed casual as U.S. Region Judge William F. Kuntz peppered him with a standard arrangement of inquiries concerning his instructive foundation and his perspective. Wearing khaki-shaded prison attire and accompanied by U.S. marshals, he rearranged his seat at the safeguard table in the stately court, where he sat down close to his lawyer. All through the conference, his paper veil sat underneath his nose.

At the point when the appointed authority asked James how he was doing, he shrugged and told Kuntz he was “very great.”

James is accused of perpetrating a fear-based oppressor assault on a mass travel framework and releasing a gun during wrongdoing of savagery for the shooting that left ten individuals, going in aged from 16 to 60, injured, however, none were killed. The charges could land James a potential life sentence.

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The adjudicator requested that he stay held without bond at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn; his next trial is planned for July 25.

Specialists have not claimed their thought process inspired James to light smoke bombs and shoot a torrent of shots at morning suburbanites on a train headed for Manhattan as it maneuvered into a station in Sunset Park on April 12. The public picture that has arisen of him has come generally from recordings he obviously posted on the web, in which he offered intolerant expressions, dug into unjustifiable cases and talked forebodingly about committing savagery. He had been captured ordinarily beforehand, generally for low-level wrongdoings.

Upsetting pictures arose via web-based entertainment of the fallout of the assault. As the train entryways opened at the station, bloodied and overreacted individuals poured out of the metro vehicle and onto the stage, and a haze of smoke spilled out, the recording showed. Authorities say they accept James’ 9mm Glock gun stuck, stopping the startling episode and conceivably saving lives.

James, in the interim, got out of the station, abandoning individual assets that helped specialists recognize and catch him following an almost 30-hour manhunt. A few group called specialists after he was seen in the East Village — around the time James called police himself to advise them of his whereabouts, authorities have said.

A $50,000 Crime Stoppers reward was supposed to be parted among the guests, barring James.

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