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Man, 22, is shot dead in Times Square as ‘stampede’ of people running for their lives: NYPD launch manhunt to track down two gunmen
- The shooting took place outside a deli at West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue.
- Police said the two gunmen who fled south of the scene are still at large.
- Authorities suspect the shooting may have been a drug-related crime
A fatal shooting in Times Square prompted a stampede of terrified people who fled for their lives Thursday night.
The shooting left a 22-year-old man dead on the sidewalk at West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue shortly after 5 pm Police suspect the shooting was drug related.
Police are searching for two suspects who fled south of the crime scene when their victim was left staggering down the street before collapsing.
Police administered first aid at the scene and then transported the man to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
It is unclear whether or not the victim was the target of the attack.
Police officers outside a Times Square Shake Shack where the victim fell after being shot
Crowds line the crime scene where a man was shot in Times Square on Thursday night.
A police officer inside the crime scene knocks outside the deli where the shooting took place.
Police said the two gunmen ran out of a delicatessen and began shooting, hitting the victim in the chest, before fleeing.
A witness told the NY Daily News that the victim fell to the ground shaking and there was “a stampede of people trying to get away.”
“It was a couple of young men who shot him,” the witness said. ‘His body was lying on the sidewalk. He was on his back shaking.
“It didn’t look like I was going to make it,” he added.
The victim’s name has not yet been released.
The crime scene was set up outside the deli where the shooting took place Thursday night.
An NYPD patrol car inside the perimeter of a crime scene after a man was shot Thursday
Police officers on the street near where the shooting occurred Thursday night.
A police officer at the scene of the shooting near Times Square Thursday night.
Policemen near the crime scene. The shooting took place outside the deli near Times Square.