{"id":104253,"date":"2024-02-10T00:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/teen-gunman-caught-after-allegedly-shooting-tourist-in-times-square-firing-at-officer\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:03:54","slug":"teen-gunman-caught-after-allegedly-shooting-tourist-in-times-square-firing-at-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/teen-gunman-caught-after-allegedly-shooting-tourist-in-times-square-firing-at-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen gunman caught after allegedly shooting tourist in Times Square, firing at officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NEW YORK) — A 15-year-old has been taken into custody after allegedly shooting and injuring a tourist in Times Square and firing at a responding officer, law enforcement sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n

The teen was caught Friday afternoon just north of New York City, in Yonkers, by the U.S. Marshals, law enforcement sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n

The shooting unfolded after three teenage boys — two aged 15 and another 16 — entered JD Sports, a clothing and sneaker store, at about 7 p.m. Thursday and started stealing merchandise on the second floor, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said. Two of the three suspects went to the lobby, where a female security guard confronted them and took back the stolen property, Chell said.<\/p>\n

One teen — a 15-year-old — then fired a .45-caliber handgun toward the security guard but instead shot a 37-year-old woman visiting New York from Brazil, police said.<\/p>\n

The woman, who was shot just above her left knee, hid in a storage room before she was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said. She’s since been treated and released, police sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n

The gunman fled a few blocks away where he fired two shots at a pursuing officer, police said.<\/p>\n

The officer wasn’t hit and didn’t return fire because there were too many people nearby, police said.<\/p>\n

The suspect then dumped his shoes and jacket and escaped to a subway station where he ran onto the tracks, police said.<\/p>\n

He later ran out of the subway and was at large for nearly 24 hours.<\/p>\n

“An attack on a cop is an attack on all of us!” NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry tweeted.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old boy who was with the gunman at the clothing store is in custody and investigators are working to determine his role, police said at a news conference Friday.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old who did not fire the weapon at the store was interviewed by detectives and released, according to police. All three go to school together.<\/p>\n

The gunman is also a suspect in a Jan. 27 armed robbery in the Bronx and a “shots fired” incident in Midtown Manhattan, police said. Police said the suspect is from Venezuela and arrived in the U.S. in September.<\/p>\n

ABC News’ Victoria Arancio contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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