The suspect in the NYC subway mass shooting called in the tip that led to his capture, reports say

• The suspect in the NYC subway mass shooting was arrested Wednesday, authorities said.
• The suspect called in the tip on his whereabouts, according to multiple reports.

The suspect in the New York subway mass shooting called in the tip that led to his capture, according to multiple reports.

Frank James, 62, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in connection to a mass shooting on a subway train in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn after authorities received a tip about his whereabouts, officials said. He was charged with a federal terrorism offense.

Police launched a search for the suspect after he was named a "person of interest" in the shooting. Two law-enforcement sources told CNN and The Associated Press that James was the one who called in the tip about his location to the Crime Stoppers hotline.

"A call came into Crime Stoppers … The guy says, 'You know, I think you're looking for me. I'm seeing my picture all over the news and I'll be around this McDonald's,'" a law-enforcement source told the New York Post Wednesday.

When officers arrived at that McDonald's in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, the suspect was not in the building, Kenneth Corey, the chief of department at the New York City Police Department, said. Authorities drove around the surrounding area before apprehending him nearby. They took him into custody "on the corner of St. Marks and First," Corey said.

"My fellow New Yorkers, we got him. We got him," Mayor Eric Adams said after James' arrest.

His arrest capped off a search that began about 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, when a gunman detonated two smoke grenades and opened fire as a Manhattan-bound N train pulled into the 36th Street subway station in Sunset Park.

Police said the suspect fired at least 33 times and hit 10 people. More than a dozen people were injured in the panic that ensued, and some were treated for smoke inhalation.

Law-enforcement officials haven't confirmed the source of the call that led to James' arrest. An NYPD spokesperson told Insider: "All calls made to Crime Stoppers are strictly confidential."

A local security-camera installer was praised by crowds in New York Wednesday for spotting the shooting suspect in the East Village and notifying the NYPD.

"I see the police walking from over there. I told the police, 'This is the guy,'" he said, adding: "'Catch him. Catch him.' Thank God, we catch him."