NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — The New York Police Department said three persons of interest were taken into custody after a 17-year-old male was shot in the foot near 42nd Street and Broadway as Knicks championship celebrations spilled into Times Square overnight.
The NYPD said officers responded to the shooting at about 2:01 a.m. near the Midtown intersection. Police said the teenager was shot once in the left foot and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. A firearm was recovered at the scene, according to the NYPD.
The available accounts reviewed by Times Media Service did not identify any defendant by name, list any filed charges, or cite a criminal complaint, court docket, prosecutor statement or defense statement tied to the shooting or to the property damage reported in Times Square. That leaves key questions unresolved, including who, if anyone, has been charged; whether the three detained people were later booked; and what role police believe each person had in the shooting.
Police also reported multiple arrests during the broader disorder, according to the Associated Press, but did not yet have a final total later Sunday. The arrest count remains one of the main gaps in the public record reviewed for this article.
The shooting was one part of a wider night of unrest after the Knicks’ championship win, when crowds gathered in Times Square and other parts of Manhattan. The AP reported that police said gunshots were reported around 2 a.m. near 42nd Street and Broadway. Other early information was less clear: AP reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while NYPD information relayed in other accounts said the 17-year-old was shot and hospitalized in stable condition.
Video and firsthand reporting documented damage to vehicles and buses near Times Square, though not all of those acts have been tied to named suspects or formal charges.
Fox News Digital described video circulating online that appeared to show two people jumping onto the roof of an NYPD vehicle and smashing its windshield. Fox also described video that appeared to show people climbing on and entering school buses near Times Square.
The AP reported that rowdy fans were seen smashing windshields, scaling scaffolding, light poles and a statue, climbing into and on top of school buses, and trying to hitch a ride on a moving fire truck. Those details were reported as scene observations and bystander-video descriptions, not as findings from a court filing.
Reuters reported, through a video journalist who witnessed the scene, that hundreds of mostly young people swarmed a convoy of about 15 shuttle buses in Times Square. Some climbed onto roofs, entered the buses and sat in drivers’ seats, Reuters reported. Reuters also reported that one yellow school bus hired by the city government to help transport soccer fans was in flames and that at least three other shuttle buses sustained heavy damage.
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. CNN also reported that on Sixth Avenue, around 2 a.m., multiple police cars were damaged and their windshields shattered, with bottles and coolers thrown toward officers as more police arrived.
The available information does not establish whether the damaged buses, the damaged police vehicles, the reported bus fire and the shooting were carried out by the same people. It also does not identify an official cause of the bus fire or cite a fire-department or fire-marshal finding.
The NYPD remains the primary public source for the shooting details now known: the time and location of the response, the teenager’s injury and hospital condition, the recovery of a firearm, and the detention of three persons of interest. Reuters, AP, CNN and Fox News provided the main firsthand or video-based accounts of the street disorder and property damage.
No source reviewed identified a shooter, a motive, the type of firearm recovered, or any court case filed in connection with the shooting near 42nd Street and Broadway.
