Man shot and killed on New York subway

Canal Street subway.
(Image credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

A man was shot and killed riding a northbound Q train in Manhattan on Sunday morning, The New York Times reports, per authorities.

The man was shot in the chest around 11:40 a.m., as the Q train pulled into the Canal Street station. As of 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the gunman had yet to be apprehended.

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The incident occurred just weeks after a shooter opened fire aboard a subway traveling through Brooklyn.

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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.