NYPD: Teen accused of Times Square shooting charged as an adult with attempted murder
A teenager accused by police of shooting a bystander while shoplifting from a Times Square store is being charged as an adult for attempted murder, assault and weapons charges, police said Saturday morning.
Information about his attorney was not immediately available but the teen is expected to be arraigned in criminal court later Saturday afternoon, officials said. As for the bystander shooting, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said Thursday the incident unfolded just after 7 p.m., when a female security guard from JD Sports confronted the alleged thief in the lobby of the store on the corner of Broadway and West 42nd Street.
The suspect, wearing all white, then fled the store with another man in a blue jacket. Police caught up with them on 47th Street and 7th Avenue, and were able to arrest the teen in the blue jacket, Chell said, but the alleged shooter kept running.
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