NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — A 17-year-old male was shot in the foot near 42nd Street and Broadway as crowds filled Times Square after the New York Knicks’ NBA championship win, according to the New York Police Department. Police said three persons of interest were taken into custody and a firearm was recovered, but the available public accounts do not identify any defendant, filed charge, court case or prosecutor statement tied to the shooting.
The police account places the shooting at about 2:01 a.m. in the heart of Times Square. The teenager was shot once in the left foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to the NYPD information cited in national reports.
The shooting was one part of a wider overnight breakdown in public order in Midtown Manhattan. Video and witness accounts described people climbing onto school buses, entering buses, damaging vehicles and smashing the windshield of an NYPD vehicle. The strongest official information now available is the NYPD’s account of the shooting, the recovery of a firearm and the detention of three persons of interest. The rest of the scene is documented mainly by news video, bystander video and firsthand reporting by national outlets, not by court filings or agency reports made public in the supplied material.
The NYPD said multiple arrests were made during the unrest, according to an Associated Press account carried by ABC News, but police did not yet have a final total later Sunday. No names, ages, booking numbers or charges were included in the supplied source material. No criminal complaint, docket number, assigned judge, defense attorney or Manhattan District Attorney’s Office statement was identified.
The timeline in the available record begins Saturday night, when large celebrations spread through New York City after the Knicks’ championship win, including Times Square and areas near Madison Square Garden. As the crowds grew, videos and firsthand accounts showed disorder centered on vehicles in and around Times Square.
Fox News Digital reported that video circulating online appeared to show two people jumping onto the roof of an NYPD vehicle and smashing its windshield. Other video appeared to show people climbing on and entering school buses near Times Square. Those images have not been tied in the supplied material to specific arrests or charges.
The Associated Press 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 reported that police said gunshots were reported around 2 a.m. near 42nd Street and Broadway.
Reuters, citing its own journalist at the scene, reported that hundreds of mostly young people swarmed a convoy of about 15 shuttle buses in Times Square. Some climbed onto bus roofs, entered buses and sat in drivers’ seats, Reuters reported. A Reuters video journalist saw one yellow school bus in flames, and Reuters 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, but the supplied material does not include a city agency statement about the buses.
CNN reported that officers moved in after a crowd began damaging a parked school bus and tearing off part of its hood. The bus was also seen being rocked back and forth, according to CNN reporter Mark Morales. CNN also reported that, on Sixth Avenue around 2 a.m., multiple police cars were damaged and their windshields shattered while bottles and coolers were thrown toward officers as more police moved in.
There are limits to what the current evidence shows. The NYPD account supports that a teen was shot, that three persons of interest were detained and that a firearm was recovered. The video and witness accounts support that vehicles and buses were climbed on or damaged during the same overnight unrest. The supplied material does not show whether any of the three persons of interest were charged, whether they were connected to the damaged vehicles, who fired the shot, what type of firearm was recovered, or what caused the bus fire.
There is also an early-information discrepancy in the public accounts. The Associated Press reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while later police-attributed accounts from other national reports said a 17-year-old had been shot in the foot and hospitalized in stable condition. The available material does not include a later NYPD written update reconciling those accounts.
The investigation, based on the available NYPD statements, remained unresolved in the public record provided: three persons of interest were in custody, a firearm had been recovered, and no named defendant or court filing had been identified.
