Overview
- Alberto Frias, 27, turned himself in at the 44th Precinct nine days after the Feb. 10 shooting of 41-year-old Adrian Dawodu at the 170th St. station in the Bronx.
- Police charged Frias with murder, manslaughter and criminal weapon possession in the fatal encounter.
- Detectives cite surveillance footage and facial-recognition results to identify Frias, then traced him to a nearby apartment where video shows him changing clothes and a shell casing was later found.
- NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said an argument on a crowded platform escalated into a fight before Dawodu was shot in the thigh and later died at Lincoln Hospital.
- Officials report this was the first subway shooting of the year in New York City, with transit shootings down significantly from 2024.