Police are searching subway tunnels and have locked down schools near where a gunman wearing a gas mask and orange construction shot at least 8 people and injured others and then set off a smoke bomb in a subway car. Video of people screaming and fleeing the subway car is already circulating on social media.

 

 

Described by witnesses as a 5ft 5 black man, weighing 170lbs, wearing an orange construction vest and gas mask, is believed to have let off a smoke grenade on a northbound N train as it moved towards 36th Street in Brooklyn.

People report that initially, they thought it was fireworks before seeing people fall before the gunfire.

A massive search is underway.