The gunman accused of fatally capturing a person throughout a heated Bronx subway station conflict – marking the primary transit homicide of the yr – surrendered to cops after 9 days on the lam, cops stated.
Alberto Frias, 27, turned himself in on the forty fourth Precinct station home Thursday and now faces a second-degree homicide cost for allegedly blasting Adrian Dawodu within the higher proper thigh on the southbound platform of the one hundred and seventieth Avenue B and D subway station Feb. 10, police stated.
Frias, who additionally faces manslaughter and weapon possession expenses, was ordered held with out bail throughout his arraignment hours later.
The lethal melee erupted when Dawodu – a recognized “emotionally disturbed particular person” – was “pacing forwards and backwards” on the platform and in the end got here to blows with Frias, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated final week.
“They lastly confront one another and so they sq. off to battle,” Kenny stated. “A fist battle breaks out, however because the man comes off the bench, our eventual shooter pulls out the pistol and shows it.”
However the sufferer appeared unfazed by the weapon, the chief added.
“He goes proper for [Frias],” he stated. “He begins throwing lefts, and he’s successful. He’s successful the battle. Our sufferer is successful the battle. He virtually throws our man onto the platform, our sufferer right here begins swinging, and he’s getting the higher of the sufferer.”
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“The battle extends all the way in which down the platform, most likely about like 25 toes,” the chief added. “They arrive collectively, and that is the place our sufferer will get shot.”
Dawodu was rushed to Lincoln Medical Middle, the place he bled to demise of a gunshot wound to his proper higher thigh that pierced his femoral artery.
In the meantime, Frias frantically ran again to his condominium, the place he modified his garments and met up together with his girlfriend and one other relative who ordered him a Lyft, the chief stated.
However in his frenzy, a shell casing apparently fell out of his garments and was left behind in his condominium, Kenny added.
Frias has 5 prior arrests, 4 in Westchester and one within the Large Apple for felony possession of a weapon again in 2016, authorities stated.
Dawodu was often known as a menace on the station the place the homicide occurred – “at all times on the platform, consistently yelling and screaming at individuals,” Kenny stated.
The 2 males didn’t know one another, the chief added.
Frias is due again in court docket Tuesday.
The slaying comes amid a spike in general felony crime within the metropolis’s transit system to date in 2026.
Main crime, reminiscent of homicide and rape, on subways and buses surged 17%, to 246 to date this yr from 210 in the identical interval in 2025.
Theft skyrocketed 58%, to 60 from 38, and assaults spiked 9%, to 71 from 65, in keeping with NYPD information by way of Feb. 8.
Extra reporting by Tina Moore and Joe Marino
