Suspect in Brooklyn subway attack has been arrested, per officials

Police in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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Police have arrested a suspect in the Tuesday attack on a Brooklyn subway in Sunset Park, The New York Times reports Wednesday, per two law enforcement officials.

Frank R. James, 62, who was "upgraded" from a "person of interest" to a suspect in the investigation earlier Wednesday morning, was apprehended seemingly that afternoon in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.