NYPD arrests employee suspected of shooting boss on Upper West Side, then escaping on subway

Cops person arrested an worker of an Upper West Side machine services institution suspected of shooting and wounding his boss, who past sent bid commuters cowering nether subway seats arsenic helium entered a adjacent subway presumption during his breakneck escape.

Members of the NYPD Warrant Squad picked up the fishy aboriginal Friday. His sanction was not instantly disclosed.

The shooter is accused of opening occurrence connected his 47-year-old supervisor adjacent the country of W. 69th St. and Columbus Ave. — astir 3 blocks from Lincoln Center — astir 9:30 a.m. Thursday, hitting his unfortunate successful the limb and shoulder.

The 2 men worked steps distant from wherever the shooting occurred.

EMS rushed the wounded unfortunate to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, wherever helium was treated for a insignificant injury.

The gunman ran to the 72nd St. C/B/A presumption astatine Central Park West, wherever helium jumped down onto the tracks and concisely hid nether an idling C train, constabulary sources said.

Fearing that the gunman was connected the train, commuters were told to cower onto the level arsenic constabulary searched each subway car.

“My ace pleasant subway thrust to enactment this morning!! Love the C train!!!” X idiosyncratic Joyceepoo posted Friday with pictures of radical trying to fell nether subway seats. “Nothing similar an progressive gunman connected the bid to aftermath you up for the day!”

Train riders were yet told to evacuate the bid and walked done the passageway to the nearest bid platform. During the chaos, the gunman continued connected down the passageway to the adjacent station.

Charges against the accused gunman were pending Friday.