Live updates: Brooklyn subway shooting suspect is still at large

Frank James, the person named by the New York Metropolis Police Division as an individual of curiosity within the Brooklyn subway taking pictures, talked about violence and mass shootings in a number of rambling movies posted on YouTube, together with one uploaded Monday by which he stated he is considered killing individuals who have presumably harm him.

The NYPD named James an individual of curiosity Tuesday as a result of they consider he rented the U-Haul van, whose keys have been discovered on the scene. Police are presently investigating whether or not he has any connection to the taking pictures, and haven’t named him as a suspect.

CNN has linked the YouTube movies to James as a result of a screenshot from certainly one of them is getting used on a NYPD Crimestoppers flyer. Additionally, in one of many movies, he posts a metropolis of New York ID card from a previous instructional coaching program.

In what seems to be his newest video, posted Monday, James talks about somebody who engaged in violence and ended up in jail.

“I’ve been by way of a whole lot of s**t, the place I can say I wished to kill individuals. I wished to observe individuals die proper in entrance of my f**king face instantly. However I considered the truth that, hey man, I do not wish to go to no f**king jail.” 

Lots of the movies that James uploaded included references to violence, together with at a set group of individuals he believed had maligned him, along with broad societal and racial teams that he appeared to hate.

In one other video posted final week, James, who’s Black, rants about abuse in church buildings and racism within the office, utilizing misogynistic and racist language. James repeatedly espoused hatred towards African Individuals.

In one other video posted final month to the identical channel, James stated that he had post-traumatic stress.

In that video, James stated he left his dwelling in Milwaukee on March 20. In the course of the journey eastward, he stated he was heading to the “hazard zone.”

“You understand, it is triggering a whole lot of unfavourable ideas after all,” he stated within the video. “I do have a extreme case of post-traumatic stress.”

Extra on the investigation: Preliminary data indicated James talked about homelessness, New York Metropolis, and the town’s new mayor, Eric Adams, in on-line posts, the NYPD commissioner stated Tuesday, including that consequently the town would enhance the mayor’s safety.

Police launched two images of James in a information convention Tuesday night time, together with one which seemed to be a screengrab from a YouTube video he had posted.

The NYPD stated keys belonging to a U-Haul that had been rented underneath his title in Philadelphia have been discovered among the many shooter’s possessions on the taking pictures scene in Brooklyn.

Police have been cautious to seek advice from James solely as a “individual of curiosity” due to the hyperlink to the U-Haul rental, noting that they weren’t accusing him at this level of being the shooter.

The movies give perception into James’ path to the northeast. He arrived in Philadelphia March 25 after stops in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Pittsburgh; and Newark, New Jersey.

CNN has reached out to James — and his household — for remark, however has not acquired a response.