NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — New York police said three persons of interest were taken into custody and a firearm was recovered after a 17-year-old male was shot during overnight Knicks championship celebrations near Times Square. The shooting was reported near 42nd Street and Broadway, where police said officers responded at about 2:01 a.m.
The teen was shot once in the left foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to NYPD accounts. Police had not publicly identified the people taken into custody, and no court filing, criminal complaint, case caption, prosecutor statement or defense statement was identified in the available reporting reviewed for this article.
The police account places the shooting inside a larger night of disorder in Midtown Manhattan after the New York Knicks won the NBA championship. Reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN and Fox News described crowds in Times Square and nearby streets, damaged vehicles, people climbing buses and a police response that continued into early Sunday.
The strongest official findings so far come from the NYPD: the time and place of the shooting, the teen victim’s injury and hospital status, the recovery of a firearm and the detention of three persons of interest. Police also said multiple arrests were made during the unrest, according to the Associated Press, but a final arrest count was not available later Sunday.
Other parts of the scene are documented mainly through video and firsthand reporting, not through court records or official damage reports.
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, according to descriptions of the footage in reports on the unrest.
The Associated Press reported that rowdy fans were seen smashing windshields, scaling scaffolding, light poles and a statue, climbing into and atop school buses in Times Square, 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 public charging document.
Reuters reported, based on 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 bus roofs, entered buses and sat in drivers’ seats, Reuters reported. The Reuters journalist also reported seeing one yellow school bus in flames. Reuters said the bus had been hired by New York City government to help transport soccer fans, 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 reporting by Mark Morales. CNN also reported that, around 2 a.m. on Sixth Avenue, multiple police cars were damaged and their windshields shattered as bottles and coolers were thrown toward officers.
The available accounts leave several key questions unresolved. Authorities had not publicly named a suspected shooter, stated a motive, identified the type of firearm beyond saying a gun was recovered, or said whether any of the detained persons had been charged in connection with the shooting. No official cause for the reported bus fire was identified in the reviewed accounts.
There is also an early-information conflict in the public record. The Associated Press reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while other police-attributed accounts said the 17-year-old was shot in the foot and hospitalized in stable condition. The later and more specific police-attributed account identifies the teen as the shooting victim.
No source reviewed identified a shooter, motive, weapon type beyond “a firearm,” or whether any charges had been filed by the time of publication.
