All three injured people are being treated at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
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According to the New York Police Department, a 17-year-old teenager opened fire on Saturday morning in Times Square, a highly crowded tourist spot in New York, and three people were injured. The spokesman of the department said, "There was a shooting at 1:20 pm local time."
According to the police, an 18-year-old girl was injured in the neck, while a 19-year-old man and a 65-year-old man were injured in the lower body. Hospital sources said that no one's life is in danger due to injuries. All three injured people are being treated at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
"The young man who attacked has been taken into police custody and a gun has been recovered," said a spokesman for the New York Police Department. The suspect has not been formally charged as the investigation is ongoing. The shooting took place on 44th Street and Seventh Avenue in the middle of the theater district of the city, where tens of thousands of tourists come every day.
Last July 30, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed four people in Manhattan. According to the 'Gun Violence Archive', there have been 254 mass shootings in the United States this year.
