Teen charged with threatening NYC subway massacre busted day before he vowed to shoot ‘anybody I see’

A man threatened to launch a subway massacre in the Big Apple, claiming he’d shoot “anybody I see” and kill dozens of straphangers — but was busted the day before he vowed to pull off the bloodshed, authorities say

Robert Trout III, a 19-year-old New York native who currently lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., allegedly boasted online that he would shoot up New York City’s subways on Thanksgiving, saying he had 60 bullets and “that’s 60 shots. That’s 60 people dead.

“If you’re from New York City do not take the train on Thursday evening, bro,” Trout ominously wrote before the holiday, saying he was ready to “cause havoc,” the US Attorney’s Office from the Middle District of Florida said in a press release Friday.

The feds said Trout even displayed “multiple firearms” during the Instagram rants, including two semiautomatic guns with extended clips with .40-caliber ammunition.

The troubled teen never had a chance to follow through on his disturbing alleged threats. He was busted by the FBI and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 22, just a day before Thanksgiving, and charged with “knowingly transmitting in interstate commerce a true threat,” the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Trout is from New York and planned to move back, his family told the outlet.

The teen has a history of substance abuse, the Times said.

Trout is currently awaiting trial on a separate concealed weapon charge in Pinellas County for allegedly carrying a switchblade after cops said he stole a shirt at a local Walmart

He was also arrested in February 2022 and accused of pointing a gun at another man during a dispute. The charges were later dismissed after Trout agreed to enter a pretrial diversion program, the outlet said.

His Instagram posts have been taken down since his arrest.

Trout made his first court appearance on the new charge in federal court in Tampa on Thursday and was ordered held without bail pending his next court appearance Dec. 18. He faces up to five years behind bars if convicted of the rap.

In a statement Saturday, the MTA said the suspect’s threats to the subways were not “credible.

“The NYPD and federal law enforcement authorities made clear prior to and on Thanksgiving that there were no specific credible threats to New York City, including to the transit system,” agency spokeswoman Joana Flores said in a statement.

“We are grateful to policing professionals here, and across the country, for the work they do to keep New Yorkers safe,” Flores said.

The NYPD said Sunday only that it is aware of the threats and Trout’s arrest.