A 17-year-old migrant was stabbed during a brawl in Times Square, just weeks after a group of asylum seekers were filmed attacking police officers on the same block.
The male victim, believed to be from Nicaragua, was chased by a group of more than a dozen people on Thursday evening before they caught him and stabbed him in the back. The New York Post.
The stabbing happened in front of 251 W. 42nd Street around 5:30 p.m. and the victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police found a large, blood-stained knife at the scene.
Hours later, another fight, believed to be unrelated, broke out and a second man was taken to hospital. The attacks took place in the same blocks where a group of migrants were filmed attacking police officers on January 27.
Times Square employee Bell Mohamed witnessed the latest attack and told The Post, “I saw someone running… and blood coming out of his back, everywhere.”
The 28-year-old victim of a second fight later on Thursday was loaded into the ambulance with minor injuries
A bloody kitchen knife from the stabbing lay on a concrete block next to a broken post
Gloved officers wiped the knife and collected evidence
A young man was arrested by the police on Thursday evening
Officers turned passersby away from the scene of the fighting
He said the area is “dangerous” and added: “Some people are just crazy.”
Police told The Post that a 22-year-old man and six others, including three migrant teenagers, had been taken into custody.
Officers are still looking for more than a dozen people in connection with the stabbing.
Photos of the aftermath of the brawl show the main tourist attraction cordoned off as groups of police stand by and turn away spectators.
One of the photos shows a long knife resting on a concrete block as a gloved officer examines it.
Next to the knife is what appears to be a wooden post that has been broken in half.
Two hours after the stabbing, another fight broke out a block away in front of the Hard Rock Café.
The bleeding man was helped to his feet by officers and loaded into the ambulance
Officers cordoned off the tourist destination as a crowd of onlookers gathered
Police cordoned off the square after the fighting
A 28-year-old man was assaulted by three people who were all arrested at the scene.
Photos showed him sitting dazed on the ground before officers helped him up.
He was loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital with cuts to his head and blood on his face.
Other photos of the two fights showed officers loading several young men into police vans with their hands tied, while the young man was loaded into an ambulance.
The latest clashes come less than a month after a group of six migrants were arrested and charged with robbery and assault following a vicious attack on NYPD officers in Times Square on January 27.
The attack occurred around 8:30 p.m. when officers attempted to disperse a disorderly group in front of 220 West 42 Street.
Police sources confirmed the migrant status of the men involved in the January 27 attack to the New York Post
The gang allegedly struck after they were asked to drive through without police. The suspected attackers were later arrested… and subsequently released without bail
A fight broke out between a suspect in a yellow sweatshirt and the police officers.
According to the NYPD, the migrants then began attacking the officers, kicking them in the head and body, while the two officers attempted to pin one of the other men down and remove his sweatshirt.
The migrants then ran away and fled east on 42nd Street toward 7th Avenue.
Around 10:44 PM that evening, four of them – Gomez, Arocha, Wilson and Reveron – were arrested.
They were all charged with assault on a police officer, gang assault, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct, but were released without bail.