A man was killed in this year’s first shooting in the New York City subway system, and the suspect remains in the wind after police stormed a Bronx building hoping to find the shooter inside, cops said.
Adrian Dawodu, 41, was struck in the 170th St. station at E. 170th St. and Grand Concourse in Mount Eden at 2:56 p.m., according to law enforcement.
The victim and the shooter were arguing when the gunman shot Dawodu multiple times on the Manhattan-bound D and B trains platform, said police.
“The victim has two wounds in the groin, in the thigh area,” a law enforcement source told the Daily News. “It looks like it went through and through.”
Medics rushed the victim to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition, where he died, cops said.
“The dude pushed the victim, and he was on the floor. He was not moving, and he was gushing blood,” said Robin Perez, who shared a platform with the victim when he was struck. “The police surrounded [the victim] and were pumping his chest doing CPR. They picked him up and put him on a stretcher and carried him out.”
Perez was standing outside the station when he recorded video of police and paramedics hauling the victim outside on a bodyboard, his pant legs completely drenched in blood.
Another video recorded by straphangers aboard a train passing through the station shows the killer shove the victim, who collapses to the platform covered in blood.
Anderson Moina Cruz, 17, also witnessed the violence.
“The dude just pushed the guy and started running. The guy on the floor was bleeding, and there was no movement,” he said. “[The shooter] ran fast, like the Olympics. I wasn’t going to be no hero.”
Cruz left the station where the shooting occurred only to find police blocking the entrance to his apartment building four blocks away on Townsend Ave. and E. 172nd St.
“When I got home, people were saying, ‘He ran in here, he ran in here,’” he said, referring to the suspect.
Officers at the scene confirmed the suspect was spotted fleeing into the Townsend Ave. building. Police set up a cordon around the location that stretched several blocks in all directions.
Officers equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, ballistic shields, sledgehammers and police dogs were seen entering the building shortly before 6 p.m., but the suspect could not be found, according to law enforcement sources.
Police say they are searching for a man standing at roughly 6 feel tall in his 40s wearing a gray parka and white, blood-stained pants.
Dawodu lived in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, cops said.
He has been arrested eight times since 2001 and was most recently charged with assault in 2020, cops said.
Three people were shot in the city’s subway system last year, all in separate incidents, NYPD crime stats show. It marked a dramatic drop from 2024, when 14 people were shot in the subway.