A man was shot the head in a Brooklyn subway station during the Thursday afternoon rush, according to police.
The victim was on a Manhattan-bound A/C platform in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station in Downtown Brooklyn when gunfire rang out just after 4:45 p.m., cops said.
Medics rushed the man to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in extremely critical condition.
Police took the gunman into custody at the scene and recovered a firearm there, according to cops.
Major crime, which the NYPD classifies as murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary and grand larceny, are up 13.2% in transit this year, according to police data.
As of Sunday, there were eight shooting victims in the city’s transit system. By the same time last year, there was just one such victim.
Last week, Gov. Hochul announced the deployment of 750 members of the National Guard and 250 state and MTA police officers to city subway stations to conduct bag searches after a spate of violent incidents across the system.
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