NEW YORK: A shooting in New York’s bustling Times Square has injured two women and a four-year-old girl, in an incident US authorities were still scrambling to understand, police said Saturday. Times Square, one of New York’s tourist hotspots before the pandemic, has changed since theaters all closed in March 2020. According to a recent report by the Times Square Alliance, the neighborhood business association, the area recorded 25 violent crimes in the first quarter of 2021, up from 17 in the same period of 2020. At the end of March, a video of an assault on an older woman of Asian descent shocked the neighborhood. A man with a criminal record, who lived in a hotel near Times Square that had become a reception center for the homeless, was arrested and charged.

Source: Manila Times May 08, 2021 23:37 UTC