If convicted on the terrorism charge, James could be sentenced to life in prison.
Highlights
- Grand jury indicts Frank James, 62, for terrorism and other charges stemming from April 12 attack.
- James, a Bronx native, is accused of setting off smoke bombs and opening fire inside a New York City subway car in Brooklyn.
- If convicted on the terrorism charge, James could be sentenced to life in prison.
- The motive of the attack has not been determined but the suspect has been linked to several violent incidents in New York’s public transportation system in the past.
- The attack followed string of violent crimes unnerving passengers in the America’s largest metropolitan transit system, including instances of commuters being pushed onto subway tracks from station platforms.
- The suspect was taken into custody some 30 hours later in lower Manhattan.