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Police hunting for a gunman who shot three innocent bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl in New York City s Times Square on Saturday
New York City is reeling from a weekend of violence that even overtook one of the Big Apple’s most prominent tourist attractions, Times Square, and continued through Monday morning.
A 4-year-old girl who was buying toys and two women, one of whom was a tourist, were in the area of West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday evening when they were struck by bullets meant for someone else. They are expected to survive, but the suspect was still at large as of Monday afternoon.
Two women and a 4-year-old girl shot and wounded late Saturday afternoon in New York’s Times Square were innocent bystanders caught in gunfire that erupted out of an argument.
New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said the shooting happened just before 5 p.m. when two to four men were arguing near the corner of W 44th Street and 7th Avenue. One of them pulled out a gun and fired wildly, striking the three bystanders.
“It appears that the three individuals who were shot were not known to each other,” the commissioner said, “and it appears they were innocent bystanders.”