A 22-year-old young man was shot and killed on Thursday evening in New York (United States), very close to Times Square, one of the emblematic tourist sites of the megalopolis where it is in principle forbidden to walk around armed, announced the police.
This Thursday evening in New York, a 22-year-old man was shot and killed after he was shot in the chest. The facts took place near Times Square, an emblematic site of the city, where carrying a weapon is prohibited.
According to an email from a New York City police spokesperson, the victim was taken to hospital, where he “sued from his injuries.” No arrests have been made at this time.
Panic in the neighborhood
According to the newspaper New York Daily Newsrelying on a witness on the spot, the young man was shot dead by two people who fled.
According to this same source, the shootings caused a start of panic in this hyper-touristy district with “a stampede of people trying to escape”.
As of September 1, 2022, it is illegal to walk around Times Square with a weapon.
As part of the fight against crime and the proliferation of guns in New York, center-right mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, had put up dozens of signs “Times Square: Gun Free Zone” (“Zone without a firearm”, editor’s note) around the square.
After a surge in the number of firearm homicides in 2020 and 2021 in New York City, it fell in 2022 to 433 in a city of 8.5 million people and millions of visitors.
