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Bullets over Broadway: Two innocent bystanders, including tourist, shot in Times Square after fight
[NYPOST] A tourist was among the three people shot in Times Square early Saturday, the victims told The Post.
The 17-year-old gunman was inside the restaurant Raising Cane on Broadway when he got into an argument with a Citibike rider just after 1 a.m. and decided to settle his beef by leaving the eatery — and opening fire, sources said.
He went onto the street and fired three shots at a group of about a dozen Citibike riders, striking one of them — a 19-year-old — in the foot as well as a man, 65, standing on the sidewalk, the sources added.
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His bullets also grazed the neck of an 18-year-old tourist as she road with her parents and siblings in an Uber, her mother and father, who were visiting from Maryland, told The Post.
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"We heard gunshots," the teen’s mom said. "My daughter was holding her neck. She was bleeding."
The parents — who also had their 11-year-old twins with them — had just taken a late night bus tour around the city and were getting a ride back to their car in a parking lot.
"It’s a very horrific experience," said the mom, who asked to remain anonymous. "We decided to take our time to come to Times Square. We just felt that we would have a beautiful experience at night to see the whole city."
Her daughter was treated at Bellevue Hospital and released. She plans to start college at Morgan State University in the fall.
"They were going to put stitches in but decided not to," the mom said.
"We were traumatized," said the father, who’s originally from Nigeria. "If anyone told me to come to Times Square for even $1 million I wouldn’t do it."
The injured 65-year-old was also taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.
Cops pulled the teen shooter into custody at the scene and recovered a Glock from him, the sources said. Three .380 mm shell casings were also recovered at the scene.
Rodney Booij, manager of Carmine’s restaurant, near the scene said there was a shooting nearby a couple weeks earlier.
"If you look at the subways, you have more police controlling everything, so if it’s not happening there," he said. "Since the police is there, it’s happening here."
Shootings were down in the Midtown South Precinct, which covers Times Square, so far this year over the same period last year from four to one as of Aug. 3, according to NYPD data.
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