Bay Area transit agencies have increased security on their rail systems following the shooting on the New York City subway on Tuesday, April 12, which left more than 30 people injured, 17 of them by gunshot wounds and the rest as a result of smoke and head injuries.
The gunman, who remains in prison, put on an old mask on a subway train in Brooklyn at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday before setting off a smoke bomb and began firing into a crowd of people on the train.
The police chief of Bay Area River Transport BART Commissioner Ed Alvarez said all uniformed officers from the transit agency's police force will be deployed to the rail system beginning Tuesday, creating a greater police presence than the agency's standard daily operations.