YouTube Deletes Account Of Brooklyn Shooting Suspect; Frank James

YouTube has removed an account believed to belong to Frank James, the suspect arrested in the subway shooting in Brooklyn on Tuesday that injured dozens of people.

Frank James, the suspect in the NYC subway shooting who was arrested on Wednesday in the East Village, operated a YouTube channel full of hate-filled rants, racist and misogynistic views, as well as criticism toward the New York City mayor Eric Adams.

While the NYPD has yet to confirm that the account under the name prophetoftruth88 belongs to James, they have used screenshots of him that seemed to be from a video posted by that account.

Before the removal, Fox News Digital viewed a string of rambling, profanity-laced YouTube videos in which a man who is James decrees the United States as a racist, violent place. Now, links to those videos direct to a message stating that the account associated with them has been “terminated.”

Officials say the shooter fired 33 times and used smoke grenades, injuring 29 people. Investigators at the scene found a Glock handgun, three extended magazines, a hatchet, and four smoke grenades, two of them detonated, they said during a Tuesday evening news briefing.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s marriage to a white man, according to Vice. Another video, titled “they hate jew,” featured James talking about wanting to kill a Latino man due to work issues, and saying Jewish people “have so much contempt for Blacks,” according to Rolling Stone, which reported that the channel had hundreds of videos before it was struck down.

James made a video in February attacking Adams and his efforts to curb homelessness in the city, according to ABC.

James appears to have posted similar videos to the Facebook page “profitofdoom008,” which is no longer available to view and seems to have been taken down by Meta, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Although James did not appear to say his name in the videos, multiple law enforcement officials said James was the same person in the YouTube videos, according to The New York Times.

James was the NYPD’s single suspect in the tragic subway shooting in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning that resulted in 10 people with gunshot wounds and more than a dozen others injured. James had been arrested 12 times before, including nine times in New York City, NYPD Chief Detective James Essig said at a press conference on Wednesday.

YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment. James was taken into custody Wednesday.