{"id":134732,"date":"2025-08-10T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134732\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:11:11","slug":"times-square-shooting-wounded-tourist-father-woman-in-uber-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134732\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square shooting wounded tourist father, woman in Uber \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A father visiting from Colombia and a young woman riding in the back of an Uber were struck by gunfire in Saturday’s early morning shooting in Times Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three people were wounded in total, including the two innocent bystanders, when a shooter opened fire around 1:20 a.m. near 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, police officials said over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Video obtained by NBC New York showed a paramedic and police officer treating 65-year-old Luis Eduardo Rodriguez Palencia after he took a bullet to his left leg. First responders put him on a stretcher and rushed him to a hospital nearby. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"First<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tNews 4<\/p>\n

\t\t\tNews 4<\/p>\n

First responders rush a 65-year-old tourist from Colombia to be treated following a shooting in Times Square. <\/p>\n

“My dad yelled, ‘I’m hurt! I’m hurt!” Palencia’s son, Jhon Rodriguez, told NBC New York in Spanish. “Unfortunately they shot my dad. We’re all in shock.”<\/p>\n

Palencia was with his family, visiting New York City for the first time an alleged fight broke out between the gunman and one of the other victims. <\/p>\n

A motive remains unclear \u2014 but law enforcement sources said before shots were fired, more than a dozen people on Citi Bikes entered the Raising Canes.<\/p>\n

“We were in Canes and about five boys came in, like\u00a0all teenagers,” Agnes Rodriguez, a witness, said. “As we were waiting to get our food they all run out, fighting and bickering.”<\/p>\n

An argument followed between a 17-year old gunman and one of the people in the large group.<\/p>\n

Palencia and his family, including his son, head the argument outside, and then the shots. <\/p>\n

“Our reaction was to throw ourselves under the car for cover. The kids pushed my mom, sister and friend,” Palencia’s son added. <\/p>\n

The gunman’s bullets also struck an 18-year-old woman in the neck as she was riding in an Uber nearby, according to police. A 19-year-old man, who appeared to be the intended target, was shot in the foot. <\/p>\n

“I heard three. We thought it was fake. We thought it was firecrackers,” another witness said. <\/p>\n

Law enforcement sources say officers nearby ran toward the gunfire and caught the suspect who tried to escape. Police also allegedly recovered a gun in the area. <\/p>\n

The alleged 17-year-old gunman was in custody; charges were still pending as of late Saturday. <\/p>\n

New York City has seen a remarkable drop in gun violence this year. Through Aug. 3, it has seen its fewest shootings in decades, down 23% so far since last year.<\/p>\n

New York bans firearms from certain so-called sensitive locations such as public transportation, hospitals, schools and Times Square, and requires that handgun owners prove \u201cgood moral character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to the state\u2019s gun laws in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father visiting from Colombia and a young woman riding in the back of an Uber were struck…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9307,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-134732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-times-square","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}