Category: Times Square

Police ID Suspect in Times Square Shooting: Reports

Police have identified the prime suspect in Saturday’s shooting in New York City’s Times Square as 31-year-old Farrakhan Muhammad, according to multiple reports. Detectives with the New York Police Department (NYPD) have released a wanted poster naming Muhammad as the individual suspected of discharging a firearm in Times Square and wounding three people, including a…


Three People, Including a 4-Year-Old Girl, Shot in Times Square

WASHINGTON—Three people including a four-year-old girl were shot in New York City’s Times Square after gunfire broke out in a dispute that they were apparently not involved in, the city’s top police official said Saturday. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said a family from Brooklyn had brought the child to Times Square to buy toys. Shea…


Times Square Barricaded, Quiet for New Year’s Eve

NEW YORK—New York City’s Times Square was barricaded on Thursday, with only a handful of invited guests, including health care workers and others from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, allowed in to watch the New Year’s Eve ball drop in person. Everyone else should stay home and watch the pared-down festivities on television,…