NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — The New York Police Department said officers took three persons of interest 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.
The shooting was reported at about 2:01 a.m., according to the NYPD account cited in public reports. Police said the teenager was shot once in the left foot and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police also said a firearm was recovered at the scene.
No person has been publicly identified in the available accounts as the shooter. The reviewed reports also did not identify charges, a criminal complaint, a court docket, a prosecutor statement or a defense attorney tied to the shooting or the property damage that followed the celebration.
That gap matters because the public evidence now available supports a narrower finding: Police reported a teen gunshot victim, three persons of interest in custody and a recovered firearm, but the record reviewed for this article does not show that anyone had been formally charged in court in connection with the Times Square shooting.
The shooting came during a night of street celebrations after the New York Knicks won the NBA championship. Crowds gathered in parts of Manhattan, including Times Square and areas near Madison Square Garden, according to Associated Press and CNN reporting.
As the celebration continued, videos and eyewitness accounts showed disorder 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 reviewed by news outlets appeared to show people climbing onto and entering school buses near Times Square.
The Associated Press reported that people 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 court findings.
Reuters reported that hundreds of mostly young people swarmed a convoy of about 15 shuttle buses in Times Square. A Reuters video journalist reported seeing some people climb onto bus roofs, enter buses and sit in drivers’ seats. 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 had heavy damage.
CNN, citing reporting by Mark Morales and other correspondents, reported that officers moved in after a crowd began damaging a parked school bus and tearing off part of its hood. CNN also reported that the bus was rocked back and forth. Around 2 a.m. on Sixth Avenue, CNN reported, multiple police cars were damaged and their windshields shattered as bottles and coolers were thrown toward officers.
The NYPD said multiple arrests were made during the unrest, according to the Associated Press, but police had not yet provided a final total in the available public accounts. Fox News Digital also reported arrests during the disorder, citing authorities.
There were signs that early information shifted as police and reporters worked through the overnight scene. The Associated Press reported that preliminary police reports had indicated no injuries, while other police-attributed accounts said the 17-year-old had been shot in the foot and hospitalized in stable condition. The later police-attributed accounts identify the teen as the known shooting victim.
The available record also leaves open several questions: the names and ages of the people taken into custody, whether prosecutors filed charges, what role the recovered firearm may have played, the official count of arrests, the full damage total and the official cause of the reported bus fire.
For now, the documented case rests on the NYPD’s account of the shooting and custody of three persons of interest, plus firsthand and video-based reporting that showed public disorder, damaged police vehicles and damaged buses near Times Square during the overnight celebration.
