NEW YORK — A faulty fan caused the glitch that prevented cameras at a Brooklyn subway station from transmitting during a mass shooting on a rush-hour train last month, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The cameras were working until “less than 24 hours” before the April 12 shooting on the N train as it approached the 36th Street station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood, MTA Chair Janno Lieber wrote in a letter to congressional representatives obtained by ABC News.
"Technicians replaced the fan unit on the morning of April 8, but the network diagnostics still indicated a problem," Lieber wrote in the letter, dated May 2."MTA technicians made a series of repairs in an effort to correct the issue, and on the morning of Monday April 11, as technicians were installing new communication hardware, the camera failed."
"Technicians were working in the communications room on the next morning, April 12, when the attack took place," the chair wrote."NYPD directed them to leave the communications room as the investigation began."Dozens of people were injured, including 10 by gunfire, in the shooting. Police arrested a suspect more than 24 hours after the incident.
"The MTA cameras in other parts of the system were essential elements in determining his movements before and after the shootings," John Miller, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the NYPD, said in a statement in the wake of the attack.
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