NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — The New York Police Department said three persons of interest were taken into custody and a firearm was recovered after a 17-year-old boy was shot near 42nd Street and Broadway in Times Square during street celebrations after the New York Knicks’ NBA championship win.
Police said officers responded to the shooting at about 2:01 a.m. The teenager was shot once in the left foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to NYPD accounts cited in the reports reviewed by Times Media Service.
No court filing, criminal complaint, case caption, defendant name, prosecutor statement or defense statement was identified in the available material reviewed for this article. That means the public record cited so far supports the police account of a shooting response, detention of three persons of interest and recovery of a firearm, but does not establish who, if anyone, has been charged in court in connection with the shooting.
The shooting was one part of a wider overnight public-safety response in Midtown Manhattan as large crowds gathered in Times Square and other parts of the city after the Knicks’ title win. The strongest official account in the material reviewed comes from the NYPD. Other details about damaged vehicles, people climbing buses and a bus fire come from wire service reporting, CNN reporting and descriptions of video circulating online.
The Associated Press reported, citing police, that gunshots were reported around 2 a.m. near 42nd Street and Broadway. AP also reported that police said there were multiple arrests, but that a final total was not yet available later Sunday. The available accounts do not make clear whether the reported arrests included the three persons of interest in the shooting case, people accused in property damage, or both.
Video circulating online appeared to show two people jumping onto the roof of an NYPD vehicle and smashing its windshield, according to Fox News Digital’s description of the footage. Other video appeared to show people climbing on and entering school buses near Times Square. Those descriptions are observations of video, not court findings, and no named defendants were identified in the material reviewed.
AP reported that rowdy fans were seen smashing windshields, scaling scaffolding, light poles and a statue, climbing into and on top of school buses in Times Square, and trying to get onto a moving fire truck. AP also described a bus later engulfed in flames. The brief accounts reviewed did not identify a fire marshal finding or an official cause for the fire.
Reuters reported that hundreds of mostly young people swarmed a convoy of about 15 shuttle buses in Times Square, with some people climbing onto roofs, entering buses and sitting in drivers’ seats. A Reuters video journalist witnessed one yellow school bus in flames, Reuters reported. Reuters also reported that at least three other shuttle buses were heavily damaged. Reuters said the bus had been hired by city government to help transport soccer fans; no city agency statement was identified in the reviewed material.
CNN, citing reporter Mark Morales’ reporting, reported that officers moved in after a crowd began damaging a parked school bus and tearing off part of its hood, and that the bus was seen being rocked back and forth. CNN also reported that around 2 a.m. on Sixth Avenue, multiple police cars were damaged and their windshields shattered, with bottles and coolers thrown toward officers as more police moved in.
The available evidence leaves several key questions unanswered. Police accounts identify the shooting location, the victim’s age and injury, the hospital transport, three persons of interest and a recovered firearm. But the reviewed material does not identify the shooter, a motive, the type of firearm, any charges filed in court or the final number of arrests tied to the Times Square unrest.
Early reporting also contained an unresolved conflict over injuries. AP reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while other police-attributed accounts said a 17-year-old was shot in the foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The later, more specific police-attributed account identifies the teenage shooting victim, but the discrepancy shows the limits of the early public record.
For now, the documented finding is narrow: NYPD accounts place a teenage gunshot victim at 42nd Street and Broadway at about 2:01 a.m., say three persons of interest were taken into custody and say a firearm was recovered, while wire service and reporter accounts describe separate scenes of damaged police vehicles, school buses and crowd disorder in and around Times Square.
