Filming in Times Square, New York: woman and child injured

At least two people, including a child, were injured in a shooting recorded by local media in Times Square in New York on Saturday afternoon.

Police said they received reports of shots fired at the intersection of West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue at around 5:05 p.m. local time, leading to the closure of a significant portion of Times Square by police officers. authorities.

According to the police, a woman and a child were taken to the local Bellevue hospital. Chain NBC New York said the woman was shot in the leg and both are expected to survive. At present, the child’s age is unknown, but local media have said he is between 3 and 5 years old.

The mayor Bill de Blasio said on his Twitter account that “innocent pedestrians are in stable condition” and that the authorities “locate” the “perpetrators” of the shooting to bring them to justice..

“The flow of illegal weapons into our city must stop”, he added, referring to the increase in shootings and crime in the city in recent months.

According to the newspaper TMZ, there could be a third injured, but this has not yet been confirmed.

The suspect allegedly escaped from the area and police cordoned off the area in an attempt to locate him. On their Twitter account, New York City Police reported that neighborhood traffic delays, street closures, and police and security forces were expected. “Avoid the area”they warned.

The perpetrator’s motive for injuring a mother and her young son in broad daylight is still unknown. According to police reports gathered by the media, witnesses said that the child was bleeding and the woman was crying.

Earlier in the afternoon of Saturday, another shooting took place in another part of the country, without the victims being known at the moment. This happened in Aventura Mall, the popular South Florida shopping center, where a gunman fired a series of shots..

“Aventura police are dealing with an incident at the mall. All clients and employees are escorted off the property. Access to the mall will not be permitted until further notice, ”the local police department reported on its Twitter account at 5 p.m. Miami time.

Videos posted on social media show scenes of people fleeing the resort, 17 miles north of Miami, and Witness footage reveals that the shots hit several people and that a suspect has been arrested.

According to the images of the Live cameras available in Times Square at 6:30 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. GMT), vehicle and pedestrian traffic was closed, with several dozen agents deployed on the road.

Images recorded by pedestrians and uploaded to social media in the moments after shooting show a great confusion and tension, with people running around and wondering what had happened.

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