Overview

• At about 1:20 a.m. on August 9 a 17-year-old fired three shots at the Broadway–Seventh Avenue intersection, wounding an 18-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and a 65-year-old man.
• The victims were transported to a local hospital where they remain in stable condition.
• Police officers sealed off parts of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, deployed more than a dozen vehicles and secured the firearm before arresting the suspect at the scene.
• The shooting follows a late-July attack in a Manhattan skyscraper that killed four people and the shooter, marking two high-profile incidents in weeks.
• The back-to-back events have reignited debate over firearm access for minors and the effectiveness of law enforcement protocols in crowded urban areas.