New York man, 45, shot dead on subway: Cops hunt three suspects who fled after attack

A man has died after being shot on a subway train in New York City early on Friday morning. 

Police said the 45-year-old was shot in the torso on a southbound D train at the 182-183 street station in the Bronx just after 5am. 

The man was unconscious and unresponsive when officers arrived on the scene, and was rushed by emergency services to St. Barnabas Hospital where he died. 

Police are now looking for three suspects believed to be involved in the shooting, with sources telling the New York Post that a verbal dispute led to the incident.

Police said the 45-year-old was shot in the torso on a southbound D train at the 182-183 street station in the Bronx just after 5am

The man was unconscious and unresponsive when officers arrived on the scene, and was rushed by emergency services to St. Barnabas Hospital where he died

The station was closed in the morning while authorities conducted their investigation. 

Images captured at the scene show emergency teams performing chest compressions on the man as he lays on the platform. 

EMS teams then lay him on a stretcher and rush him out of the station to an awaiting ambulance.  

One neighbor told ABC7: 'I know to avoid this station because it's typically a dangerous station, so I typically take the station ahead or behind and travel from there, it's terrible. The train is not safe.'

It comes after a separate incident last month when one man was killed and five others injured after gunfire erupted at another Bronx train station. 

Police are now looking for three suspects believed to be involved in the shooting 

The station was closed in the morning while authorities conducted their investigation 

Police said that violence broke out on the 4 train platform at Mount Eden Avenue Station with a 35-year-old man being and shot killed. 

The survivors, three males and two females, were all taken to hospital with gunshot wounds but all were in a stable condition. 

Langel Jones, 16, was apprehended by officers following the shooting and ordered held without bail on murder charges.

Police are now hunting a 15-year-old who they also believed fired shots on the station, and have a 14-year-old boy in custody also, according to the Daily News.