NYPD is still on the trail of Marcos Cofresi, a comedian suspected of shooting a person on the New York subway a month ago.
Cofresi, 30, is a comedian who likes to make jokes about the police, and has been wanted since the violent incident on January 28 on a subway train in Manhattan in which a 34-year-old man was injured, according to The authorities.
Investigators recently learned that the suspect is a comedian who goes by the name “Leo Cofresi,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
Cofresi was reportedly with his girlfriend when an accidental encounter on a Brooklyn-bound N train led to a near-fatal shooting on Canal St, Chinatown.
Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. According to NYPD, the Bushwick resident suspect fired twice, wounding the man in the left arm and torso. He then got off the train at Canal St. with his girlfriend and left. At the time, he was wearing a jacket, a New York Yankees baseball cap and a face mask imprinted with a human skull.
Cofresi has performed at the “Greenwich Village Comedy Club”, according to Daily News. At the “Dania Beach Improv” in Florida in April 2022, he joked about defunding the NYPD.
He has been arrested twice before for possession of marijuana and jumping a turnstile on the Metro, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Cofresi. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Since taking office in January 2022, former NYPD Mayor Eric Adams has announced multiple times that he would double the number of NYPD officers in the subway system in a beefed-up security plan to address violence in the chaotic NYC Subway. But so far crime and chaos have continued to thrive.
At the same time, MTA faces million-dollar losses due to the increasing number of users who access the Metro and buses without paying. In addition, it is estimated that some 3,400 homeless people are currently living in subway cars and stations.