Fleeing riders forced to exit single file at nearby Brooklyn station after subway shooting, riders say
A crowd of terrified passengers struggled to flee while exiting a train at Brooklyn's Fulton Street station after the shots were fired in last week’s shooting at the nearby Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway stop, multiple riders told Gothamist on Sunday.on a northbound A train, according to police.
It began as an otherwise standard commute from work for Bullock-Vigdor, a 32-year-old elementary school teacher from Brooklyn. A ride on the A/C train at the Jay Street–MetroTech station placed her at Hoyt-Schermerhorn around 4:40 p.m., where she planned to transfer. The realization sent a hoard of passengers into the G train, she said. The train’s doors struggled to close as more frantic commuters piled into the carts in an attempt to escape the gunfire, Bullock-Vigdor said. Passengers began screaming at the conductor to finally shut the doors, she told Gothamist.
All the while, the gate next to the turnstile would not budge. She said there were hundreds of people all attempting to leave through the same single-person entryway at once. “If there was an active shooter, a bigger emergency than it could’ve been – a lot worse than it was,” she said.
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