By The newspaper
23 Feb 2024, 01:29 AM EST
Several people were arrested yesterday after a 17-year-old Hispanic boy was stabbed during an apparent group dispute in Times Square, a tourist and theater mecca in New York.
Officers responded to the building at 251 W. 42nd St. for a report of a stabbing around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. There they found a teenager, apparently a native of Nicaragua, wounded with a stab wound in the lower back. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in stable condition, he noted. New YorkPost.
A teen was stabbed in Times Square when a large fight broke out near a migrant shelter.
“The knife was still sticking out of his back when he went down.”https://t.co/eCOP8NqDpN
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 23, 2024
The NYPD said the victim and the suspect in the attack apparently had a dispute before the stabbing.
One of the people involved in Thursday’s fight pulled out a knife and chased a dozen people to 8th Avenue, witnesses told DailyNews. At the same time, officers patrolling on foot near the intersection saw the dispute and ran after the person carrying the knife.
According to the NYPD, seven people have been arrested and police were looking for 10 more men, he said. ABCNews. Charges against the suspects were not immediately announced.
The fight broke out on 42nd Street near 8th Avenue just steps from the Candler Building, a vacant office tower that has been converted into a shelter for asylum seekers and was the scene where two NYPD officers were allegedly arrested in late January. beaten by young Hispanic immigrants.
The case sparked a national controversy that even generated comments from the White House: President Biden said he was “outraged by these attacks on law enforcement,” said spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. Additionally, the Democratic governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, suggested that the attackers should be deported.
Days later, a Brazilian tourist was shot in the leg and police officers were targeted during a store robbery in Times Square. NYPD identified migrant teenagers as suspects and one of them was charged with attempted murder.
Last week, Darwin Gómez Izquiel, a teenage migrant suspected of being part of the group released after the brutal attack on the two New York police officers, was arrested again after allegedly robbing and assaulting an employee at a Macy’s store in Queens.