NYC subway killer gave gun to homeless man after random slay: sources

2022-05-29 16:33:26 By : Mr. Kevin Zhang

The cold-blooded Manhattan subway killer who shot a Goldman Sachs researcher at random was captured on video giving the murder weapon to a homeless man who quickly sold the gun, police sources said Monday.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted surveillance photos of the suspect in what she called the “tragic, senseless shooting” of Daniel Enriquez and asked the public’s help tracking him down.

“We need all eyes on this,” Sewell said of the photos of the suspect.

Images of a suspect in the deadly shooting of a Goldman Sachs researcher on the subway were tweeted out by Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. (NYPD)

Police are looking to question a 25 year old ex-con, Andrew Abdullah, who sources said is a suspect in the slaying. Investigators were able to track his movements after the shooting on video surveillance and captured a moment when he removed his face mask, sources said. An investigator recognized the suspect, the sources said.

The surveillance video also captured the suspect giving the gun to a homeless man while making his escape, sources said. The homeless man then sold the gun to another homeless person. Police have recovered the gun, sources said.

Enriquez was shot at 11:45 a.m. on Sunday aboard a Q train crossing the Manhattan Bridge.

“According to witnesses, the suspect was walking back and forth in the same train car,” NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said shortly after the shooting. “And without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired it at the victim at close range.”

The heavyset bearded suspect, who by witness accounts had no prior interaction with Enriquez, got off the train at the Canal St. station and ran, Corey said. The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he died at 12:14 p.m.

The suspect was able to flee after the train made its first stop at the Centre Street/Canal Street station, pictured here on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

Abdullah has more than a dozen arrests, served time in state prison on a gun and conspiracy conviction and was conditionally released on parole in June 2019.

He was quickly busted again in January 2020 for resisting arrest. Cops found a loaded Glock .40-caliber firearm on him while walking him into a precinct stationhouse, prosecutors said. He posted the $100,000 bail in that case later that year and was released.

He ran afoul of the law again in March 2021 when he was arrested in a domestic violence case for punching, scratching and pushing a woman against a wall, according to a criminal complaint. Prosecutors said that at one point during the alleged abuse, the victim was holding a baby.

A wanted poster for the suspect in the fatal shooting of Daniel Enriquez aboard a Q train. (Noah Goldberg/New York Daily News)

More recently, Abdullah was busted April 25 in connection with a car stolen the day before in Brooklyn and was let go on supervised release.

Both those cases are still pending.

Efforts to reach Abdullah and his relatives were unsuccessful.

Enriquez, a 48-year-old Goldman Sachs researcher going to meet his brother for brunch, was sitting in the last car of a Manhattan-bound Q train as it approached the Canal St. station when he was shot in the chest.

Enriquez’s partner Adam Pollack, 54, told the Daily News the victim usually never took the subway on weekends, but recently had started to ease back into taking the train because Ubers were too expensive.

Daniel Enriquez, left, and Adam Pollack in an undated photo.

The victim joined the global investment research division of Goldman Sachs in 2013.

“Daniel Enriquez was a dedicated and beloved member of the Goldman Sachs family for nine years,” the investment firm’s chairman and CEO, David Solomon, said in a statement. “He worked diligently to support our macro research team in New York and epitomized our culture of collaboration and excellence. We are devastated by this senseless tragedy.”

Train operator Luis Irizarry, 40, recounted the terrifying moment gunfire erupted in the car, according to an account from Transport Workers Union Local 100.

As he walked to the back of the car, Irizarry spotted Enriquez’s lifeless body.

“Nobody was helping him, so I got down and pushed down on his chest, giving chest compressions,” Irizarry recounted to the union. “I’m not a trained EMT, but I was trying to help this man. I was trying to do chest compressions but to no avail. I saw the police coming and I waved them down.”

Griselda Vile, the victim’s 43-year-old sister, said the killer robbed her family — and the city — of a man who loved New York.

Her brother, she said, graduated from New York University and donated countless hours of his time to artists in need in addition to working for Goldman Sachs.

“I want people to know that he was one of the smartest people I know,” she said. “He would try so hard to be in his family’s lives.”

“He was jovial, generous. He doesn’t do anything bad,” she added. “He’s a good person.”

Daniel Enriquez, second from right, is pictured with all his siblings at his sister Griselda's wedding in 2004. Enriquez was heading to brunch with his brother, Dave, pictured at far right, on Sunday, May 22, 2022.

The shooting comes just weeks after a gunman set off a smoke canister and sprayed 33 bullets into a crowded Manhattan-bound N train as it approached the 36th St. station in Brooklyn on April 12. Ten people were shot and wounded and 13 others were otherwise hurt.

The accused shooter, Frank James, has pleaded not guilty to federal terrorism charges.

Shootings on the subway had been rare in recent years. Through Sunday, crime is up 58% in the subway, with four murders, the same as last year. Fifteen people have been shot, including 10 in the Sunset Park incident, compared with two at this time last year.

Enriquez is survived by three sisters, one brother and Pollack, his partner.

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