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 during overnight celebrations in Times Square following the Knicks’ NBA championship win.
The police account, as reported in multiple national outlets, places the shooting at about 2:01 a.m. in one of the city’s busiest public spaces. The teen was shot once in the left foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to NYPD information cited in those reports. Police also said a firearm was recovered at the scene.
No available report reviewed for this article identified the three people by name, age or charge. No criminal complaint, court docket, prosecutor statement, defense statement or case caption was included in the materials reviewed. That means the public record available so far shows police detentions in connection with the shooting, but not filed charges or a court case tied to a named defendant.
The shooting happened as large crowds filled parts of Manhattan after the Knicks’ championship win. Times Square and the area around Madison Square Garden were among the places where celebrations spilled into the streets Saturday night and early Sunday, according to Associated Press and CNN reporting.
The evidence now available comes from three main types of sources: NYPD statements about the shooting and arrests; firsthand reporting from national news organizations, including Reuters, AP and CNN; and video circulating online that shows property damage and people climbing on vehicles. Those sources agree that the celebration became disorderly in parts of Midtown, but they do not yet provide a full arrest count or a full damage estimate.
The NYPD said multiple arrests were made during the unrest, according to AP. But police did not yet have a final total later Sunday, AP reported. Fox News Digital also reported arrests during the disorder, citing authorities. None of the reviewed materials tied a specific arrest to a specific damaged vehicle, bus or act shown on video.
Videos 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 video descriptions are evidence of what appeared on camera, not official findings about who was involved or whether charges were filed.
AP reported that rowdy fans were seen smashing windshields, scaling scaffolding, light poles and a statue, climbing into and onto school buses in Times Square, and trying to hitch a ride on a moving fire truck. AP also reported that bystander video showed a bus later engulfed in flames.
Reuters provided a more specific firsthand account of the bus damage. A Reuters video journalist reported seeing hundreds of mostly young people swarm a convoy of about 15 shuttle buses in Times Square. Some people climbed onto the roofs, entered the buses and sat in drivers’ seats, according to Reuters. Reuters also reported that one yellow school bus, which it said had been hired by city government to help transport soccer fans, was on fire, 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 reporter Mark Morales’ reporting. CNN separately 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 while more police moved in.
The available accounts do not establish whether the bus damage, the police vehicle damage and the shooting were carried out by the same people. They also do not identify a motive in the shooting, the type of firearm recovered, or whether the teen who was shot had any connection to the people detained.
There is also an early-record conflict on injuries. AP reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while other police-attributed accounts said a 17-year-old had been shot in the foot and hospitalized in stable condition. The later and more specific police-attributed information identifies the teen’s injury and hospital status, but the conflict shows the limits of the first public accounts during the overnight response.
The bus fire has not been linked in the reviewed materials to an official fire marshal finding or a stated cause. Reuters reported the fire based on a video journalist’s firsthand observation, and AP described bystander video showing a bus engulfed in flames. No fire department statement was included in the materials reviewed.
The record is clearer on the location and timing of the shooting than on the broader disorder. Police placed the shooting near 42nd Street and Broadway at about 2:01 a.m. The teen was taken to Bellevue Hospital, police said. Three persons of interest were detained, and a firearm was recovered, according to the NYPD. Beyond those points, key questions remain unresolved in the available public record: who, if anyone, has been charged; how many arrests were made; how much property was damaged; and whether city, school or private transport assets were involved in the damaged buses.
