you know, as shimon was mentioning, the area that we re talking about is kind of the lower east side of manhattan in the east village. that s a pretty populated area. a lot of people there on a regular basis. very easy to get lost in the mix. these officers were sharp with their eye. all the officers know at this point what he looks like, but quite frankly, to pick somebody out out of you know, a bunch of people wa lking is really keen eyesight to have. it sure is. tom, thank you so much. our breaking news is continue to continue right now with alisyn and victor. welcome to cnn newsroom. as you ve just heard, we have breaking news. new york city police have just
this investigation could now shift with the growth of information. it could shift. investigations shift. it happens. it s really going to, we re really going to have to see if something comes from his interrogation. why did you do it. if he even talks. if he lawyers up, then hey, you can t go anywhere. as far as the interrogation goes. we can t say that the commissioner was wrong, but i would say you stay open minded to the legal possibilities of the incident and we have to get more progress here to see where this goes. i have a follow up question about the one i just asked shimon and i feel like you and i have talked about this before with other mass shootings. he was regularly posting these disturbing, violent rhetoric at least videos on youtube. whoever sold him that gun, why isn t that person culpable for
so they had enough and they re talking to prosecutors to be sure that when they present this that it s solid. so between the police and prosecutors, somewhere they said he goes from person of interest to the suspect. let s get him. stay with us if you would. back to shimon prokupecz. he s live on the scene of where this happened. we know the suspect is in custody. the nypd just arrested him. speaking of evidence, one of the bits of evidence were these youtube videos and i think our producers can pull one up. i want to play for everybody what we were dealing with. what this man posted about his violent thoughts, about what he was planning. let me just play this youtube video for everyone. mass shootings. yeah, there needs to be more.
arrested the suspect in the new york subway shooting. frank james. any moment now, we expect to get an update from new york city police on how this went down, but in the meantime, shimon prokupecz has a lot of information. shimon, it sounds like this was a police public partnership because people were out there looking for this guy, frank james, then police spotted him. well, yeah. they were, but obviously every police officer here had a photo of him so that certainly assisted them in finding him. it s pretty remarkable when you think about this. it s just two officers on patrol. the guy is just walking the streets like as if nothing has happened. the world is looking for him and he s just walking the streets and two officers riding in their car, perhaps maybe on foot, we don t know, they see him, stop him, and arrest him. and he s walking around as if nothing has happened. that is so remarkable. and that s what happened here. i can tell you dguys that this
area is the way this person described it. he posted them on twitter. he wasn t sure that this was the individual. he posted the photos on twitter. remarkably also the police never contacted him. it wasn t until i contacted the police a short time ago, i said, hey, have you kguys talked to him? he received a text from the police. so i don t know if he s talked to them yet, but that s how that transpired, but it s not far when you think about where these photos were taken, to where the police ultimately apprehended this guy, it s not very far, victor. it s all lower east side. and the reason i think it s connected is because the police responded i think on twitter saying please get in touch with us. it sounds like, to me, that once they realized huh, this might be somebody on the lower east side, they then sent their patrols and were looking around for him and there he was in those pictures that you re talking about, he was just sitting idly. didn t seem to be hiding. but the point her