17-year-old accused Times Square shooter held on $200K bail on attempted murder charges

A suspected gun-toting teen who fired into a crowd in Times Square on Saturday, wounding three people — including two innocent bystanders — was ordered held on $200,000 bail Sunday.

Suspect Jayden Clarke, 17, was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on attempted-murder charges in the early-morning shooting that wounded his target, a 19-year-old man, in the leg — and also injured a 65-year-old bystander in the left knee and grazed an 18-year-old female tourist from Maryland in the neck, cops said.

“All sequences of these events were captured on high-definition surveillance cameras,” Manhattan prosecutor Sidney Balman told the judge at Clarke’s hearing.

Clarke — who avoided making eye contact with his mother, a city Parks Department worker, and two brothers in court — had gotten into an argument with a Citibike rider inside the nearby Raising Canes restaurant on Broadway around 1 a.m. before the shooting, authorities said…

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