NEW YORK, June 14 (Our New York News) — The New York Police Department said three people were taken into custody as persons of interest after a 17-year-old male was shot in the foot near 42nd Street and Broadway during early-morning Knicks championship celebrations in Times Square.
Police said officers responded to the shooting 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 information cited in multiple accounts. Police also said a firearm was recovered at the scene.
The public record available so far does not show who, if anyone, has been charged. The source materials reviewed for this report did not include a criminal complaint, court docket, case caption, prosecutor statement, defense statement or identified arrestee name tied to the shooting or the property damage reported in Times Square.
That gap matters because the police account establishes custody and a recovered gun, but not a filed criminal case. The NYPD described the three people as persons of interest in connection with the shooting. No source material reviewed identified a shooter, a motive, the type of firearm or whether prosecutors had filed charges.
The shooting came as large crowds filled parts of Manhattan after the Knicks won the NBA championship. The celebrations spread into the streets around Times Square and Madison Square Garden on Saturday night and continued into early Sunday, according to police accounts and reporting from The Associated Press, Reuters and CNN.
The NYPD said there were multiple arrests during the unrest, according to the AP, but police did not yet have a final total later Sunday. No final arrest count tied specifically to the Times Square disorder was included in the materials reviewed.
The evidence of broader disorder comes from a mix of police statements, news video and firsthand reporting by journalists at the scene. Fox News Digital reported that circulating video 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.
The 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. Those details were described as scene observations and bystander-video accounts, not as findings in a court record.
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. Reuters reported that some people climbed onto bus roofs, entered the buses and sat in drivers’ seats. A Reuters video journalist also reported seeing one yellow school bus in flames. Reuters said that bus had been hired by the 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. CNN also reported that the bus was rocked back and forth. Around the same time on Sixth Avenue, CNN reported, multiple police cars were damaged and windshields were shattered as bottles and coolers were thrown toward officers.
The accounts do not all answer the same questions. The NYPD information reviewed establishes the time and place of the shooting response, the teen’s injury and hospital status, the custody of three persons of interest and recovery of a firearm. The video and witness accounts document apparent property damage and dangerous crowd behavior, but they do not identify defendants or prove who committed specific crimes.
There is also an early-information conflict in the record. The AP reported that preliminary police reports indicated no one was injured, while other police-attributed accounts and Reuters-linked reporting said a 17-year-old was shot in the foot and hospitalized in stable condition. The later, more specific police account identified the teen as the shooting victim.
No fire department statement, fire marshal finding or official cause of the bus fire was included in the reviewed materials. No city agency statement was included explaining the full role of the buses or the extent of public property damage.
As of the available source material, the clearest official finding is limited: NYPD officers responded to a shooting near 42nd Street and Broadway at about 2:01 a.m.; a 17-year-old male was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the foot; three persons of interest were taken into custody; and a firearm was recovered.
