Times Square shooting leaves Mom and daughter, 3, injured as NYPD hunt gunman after rampage outside Lion King
A TODDLER and a woman were both struck by gunfire on Saturday evening in the middle of Times Square, The Sun has confirmed.
A 3-year-old girl and a woman who is reportedly her mother, were both wounded by bullets minutes before 5pm on Saturday while they were in the vicinity of the Minskoff Theater where The Lion King theater show is performed, an NYPD spokesman confirmed.
Both were rushed to Bellevue Hospital a few miles away.
Their condition is unknown.
The New York Post is reporting the victims are mother and daughter.
One witness heard two shots and saw a bloodied young child.
“The cops grabbed the baby and put [her] in the ambulance,” Sakho Khadim told The New York Post.
“The mother was crying.”
But the woman that he believed to be the mother, appeared to express that she was okay.
“She said ‘I’m good'” he told the paper, before she gave the medics and cops a thumbs up.
Ciro Iova counted three shots, and saw a young woman whom he described as being in her twenties lying on the ground.
“She was crying out for assistance,” he said in an interview with the Post while patronizing a McDonald’s at the time the horror unfolded.
The gunfire sent the public scattering for cover and a lockdown and then an evacuation order was enforced – emptying the “Crossroads of the World” to , save for the heavy presence of uniformed police officers.
The NYPD released the following message on its official Twitter account: “Due to a police investigation avoid 44 Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan. Expect a police presence in Times Square and residual traffic delays in the surrounding area.”
“I heard three loud shots,” Sandy Espinoza told the New York Daily News.
The 42-year-old who was visiting the city from Illinois was standing blocks away from the crackle of gunfire.
Espinoza said the shots sent a stampede of people trying to rush out of the area.
“Everybody was running,” Espinoza told the paper. “People were panicking and screaming.”
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