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'Devastated' family, co-workers mourn Goldman Sachs worker killed in Q-train shooting
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Gwynne Hogan
Published May 23, 2022
Modified May 23, 2022
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Police and family members have identified the man who appears to have been randomly shot and killed on the Q-train Sunday afternoon as Park Slope resident Daniel Enriquez.
The 48-year-old was shot at close range in the chest by a man who’d been pacing back and forth inside the Q train car as it pulled over the Manhattan Bridge, authorities said. The shooter fled at the Canal Street station and was still on the loose as of Monday morning, police said.
Enriquez’s sister Griselda Vile posted photos of her brother on Facebook and told the Daily News and the New York Post that he was headed from his apartment on St. John’s Place to meet friends for brunch Sunday afternoon when the attacker opened fire.
“There was no interaction with the murderer at all,” Griselda told The Post. “How can an incredibly loving man be taken away for no reason?”
Enriquez worked at Goldman Sachs as a researcher since 2013, and had previously worked at Morgan Stanley in a similar role, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“We are devastated by this senseless tragedy and our deepest sympathies are with Dan’s family at this difficult time,” Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon said in a statement.
Police are still searching for the attacker and posted a photo of the suspect emerging from the train station, urging anyone with information to come forward.
Through April, major felonies on city subways were up 53 percent compared to last year, according to NYPD data, though crimes on subways account for just a small portion of crimes committed across the five boroughs.
Speaking about the shooting at an unrelated press conference Monday, Mayor Eric Adams said there hadn’t been a police officer on the subway train at the time of the attack and he added that he and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell planned to meet this week to talk about potentially readjusting officer deployment.
“This is the type of employee I want to get back to work, yes,” Adams said. “Does this send a chilling impact on this? Yes."
In April, ten people were shot in a random mass shooting that rattled straphangers across the five boroughs. Several days later a 24-year-old man was shot and killed inside the Jamaica Center- Parsons/Archer Station. After April’s shooting, Adams had floated the idea of installing some kind of metal detector throughout the system’s 472 stations, though the state, not the mayor, oversees the MTA.
Sunday’s shooting on the Q train, sent further shockwaves through the subway system. Lucy Perez, 22, who was getting off at the Canal Street station Monday morning, said she wished she earned enough as a home caregiver to afford an Uber to work from her Brooklyn apartment.
“I have pepper spray all the time in my bag because people are usually crazy, you see a lot of things,” she said.
But Dennis Dais, 29, said he was getting used to random acts of violence on the subway. He’d stopped turning on the noise-cancellation function on his airpods, but otherwise was going about his regular commute.
“A month ago the Sunset Park incident happened, that’s my train stop,” he said. “I think I’m just kind of used to it at this point. It’s like our New York City reality.”
This story has been updated with additional comment.
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