A manhunt is underway for a gunman who shot and injured a tourist in Times Square and fired at a responding officer, according to New York City police.
Three men entered JD Sports, a clothing and sneaker store, at about 7 p.m. Thursday and started stealing merchandise on the second floor, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said. Two of the three suspects went to the lobby, where a female security guard confronted them and took back the stolen property, Chell said.
The gunman then fired toward the security guard but instead shot a 38-year-old woman visiting New York from Brazil, police said.
The woman, who was shot just above her left knee, hid in a storage room before she was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said.