Terrifying moment subway riders were forced to lie on the ground with hands in the air as gunman roamed train tunnels

New York City subway riders were seen fearfully lying on the ground in images obtained by DailyMail.com as police continue to search for a rogue gunman. 

Officers have launched a manhunt for a suspect who reportedly shot a 47-year-old in his leg as well as his shoulder at around 9.30 am at West 69th Street and Columbus Avenue and then ran into Central Park. 

Officials believe the suspect ran into the B and C lines subway station at 72nd Street and Central Park West – where he jumped down onto the tracks and ran into a train tunnel going north. 

Responding officers had the station’s power line turned off to walk the tracks and halted many metros to conduct searches. 

Abbie Jarzombek exclusively told DailyMail.com that she was on the C train at around 9.30am heading from her apartment in Harlem to her internship downtown when her train suddenly stopped.

The terrified 20-year-old said the conductor repeatedly told everyone to get on the floor face down and cover their heads.

In the span of seconds, the young adult saw a group of SWAT officers in full gear storm into the car and found out there was a gunman under the train.

‘We were all in survival mode. We were all huddled and this other girl was laying on top of me and we were holding hands. When the subway lights went dark, I thought, “this was it”,’ she said.

Jarzombek noted that as everyone onboard quietly lay on the floor in panic, the officers kept looking under the train with flashlights.

The New York Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect who reportedly shot a 47-year-old man in the shoulder and leg on the Upper West Side and ran into Central Park

‘We were all in survival mode. We were all huddled and this other girl was laying on top of me and we were holding hands. When the subway lights went dark, I thought, “this was it”,’ she said

‘[I] heard the police screaming, “move … move … single file… get out…. get out”. We had to walk in the tunnel. It was so dark. I couldn’t hear or see anything’, she recalled

While she overhead some saying the suspect was hiding underneath their car, Jarzombek believes she also heard another say the suspect was in the another car.

Soon after, officers began asking the riders to leave the train in a single file, walk along a dark tunnel and brought them to a subway platform on 72nd Street

‘[I] heard the police screaming, “move … move … single file… get out…. get out”. We had to walk in the tunnel. It was so dark. I couldn’t hear or see anything’, she recalled.

There were widespread rumors that the suspect had been pinned underneath an oncoming train but authorities have since debunked them. 

He was rushed to the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital by emergency responders and is expected to survive

Cops now believe the suspect may have escaped the tunnel through an emergency exit at 76th Street and are now searching the Park itself.

The search caused lingering delays on the A, B, C and D lines. 

Footage from the scene shows shards of broken glass on the street near a bus stop. 

According to ABC News, the gunman is six feet tall and was last seen wearing a white hat, green jacket, blue under hoodie while holding a black gun in his hand. 

Officials believe the suspect ran into the subway for C/B/A lines at 72nd Street and Central Park West – where he jumped down onto the tracks and ran into a northbound train tunnel 

New Yorker Steve Greene, an eyewitness, told the channel: ‘I heard two loud shots. And I jumped out of my car and ran down here and saw the shooter. 

‘And he was right here pointing a gun, I heard the glass shatter. I’m not sure how that happened. There was a truck parked here blocking my view and he walked on the other side.’

It remains unclear what kind of injuries did the victim sustain and whether the men knew each other prior to the altercation. 

The victim was rushed to the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital by emergency responders and is expected to survive, according to the New York Daily News. 

Footage from the scene shows shards of broken glass on the street near a bus stop

They now believe the suspect may have escaped the tunnel through an emergency exit at 76th Street and are now searching the Park itself

Officials have also not clarified what caused the gunman to fire on the 47-year-old man. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to the New York Police Department for more information. 

The incident comes two months after four people were shot including a NYPD cop at a major subway station in Brooklyn during a horrific daylight gunfight. 

One person has been reported dead and two injured, law enforcement officials said. 

Officials have also not clarified what caused the gunman to fire on the 47-year-old man

The gunfight took place at Sutter Avenue Station in East New York, Brooklyn around 3pm. Officers later took Derell Mickles, 37, into custody a suspect. 

Police say that two officers assigned to transit detail followed the accused up the stairs who hadn’t paid his fare and jumped the turnstile.

“The officers are asking him to stop. The male is refusing to stop at a certain point on the platform. 

The male, he mutters the words, ‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t stop following me,'” said NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey.

After leaving voluntarily, he came back to station, jumped the turnstile again, verbally threatened the officers and then pulled out the knife. 

Despite being warned 38 times, the suspect did not waver and had to be tasered by the cops. 

But this did not subdue him and he ended up in a physical fight with them 

One officer was reported to have been shot on the right side of the torso while a 26-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet and 49-year-old Gregory Delpeche was left critically injured, according ABC7. 

A second officer was taken to the hospital but was not shot.