A 64 year old man who did setting off and shooting smoke bombs in a crowded subway N.Y in 2022 He was sentenced to death on Thursday life imprisonment for terrorist acts.

As the prosecution demanded, a federal judge sentenced Frank James to “10 concurrent life sentences, plus 10 years served consecutively”the Brooklyn federal prosecutor’s office reported on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

New York’s mayor arrives in Quito on Friday to seek solutions to the needs of Ecuadorian migrants

During morning rush hour on April 12, 2022, James – wearing a gas mask, yellow hard hat and orange workman’s vest – detonated two smoke bombs in the Brooklyn subway before firing several shots, causing general panic in a city still traumatized . by the attacks of September 11, 2001.

There were no fatalitieswhat authorities describe as a miracle, but Ten people were injured by gunfire and others were injured during the chaos.

“Subway passengers included children heading to school, families, pregnant women, students and New Yorkers heading to work,” prosecutors said in their statement.

Photos of the events were shown extensive bloodstains on the train and traces of blood on the platform of the 36th Street station, in the Sunset Park neighborhood.

James was arrested without resistance in Manhattan after a manhunt lasting more than 24 hours.

After initially proclaiming his innocence, He pleaded guilty to terrorist acts on January 3, 2023. His lawyers have said he did background of Mental illness. (JO)