Three people have been shot in Times Square with emergency services rushing to the scene in the early hours of the morning.
One woman, 18 and two men, 19 and 65, have been injured after violence erupted in the popular tourist hotspot in the heart of New York City on Saturday.
Police descended on the scene between West 44th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan after the chaos unfolded at around 1:20am.
A suspect has since been taken into custody, while all three victims have been taken to Bellevue Hospital where they remain in a stable condition.
Video footage from the scene appeared to show one person on a stretcher being wheeled into an ambulance surrounded by police officers.
Another clip also showed terrified members of the public fleeing from the scene outside the Hard Rock Cafe on 7th Avenue shortly after the gun shots rang out.
One witness on social media claimed that a car just metres in front of him had been ‘shot up’, with its windows pierced by bullet holes.
People are seen fleeing from the scene of a shooting in Times Square that injured three people in the early hours of Saturday morning
Several police officers descended on the scene between West 44th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan after the chaos unfolded at around 1:20am
Video footage from the scene appeared to show one person on a stretcher being wheeled into an ambulance surrounded by police officers
The incident comes just days after another shooting in downtown Manhattan by a gunman who later took his own life.
Shane Tamura, 27, strode into the Midtown Manhattan offices that house the NFL’s headquarters with an assault rifle and killed four people on July 28, including an off-duty police officer.
Authorities say Tamura arrived at the offices by car on Monday afternoon following a mammoth cross-country trip.
New York mayor Eric Adams indicated that authorities believe his target was the NFL, which has its headquarters in the tower. A note found on the gunman’s body mentioned the league.
