NYC Boosts Times Square Police Presence After Weekend Shooting
- Officers come after second shooting in tourist hub since May
- Mayor expects budget agreement with City Council on Monday
Photographer: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
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New York City is adding police officers and deploying undercover cops in Times Square after a 21-year-old man walking through the Manhattan tourist hub was struck by ricocheted gunfire on Sunday afternoon.
This is the second daytime shooting in Times Square in the last two months, following a May shooting in which two women and a 4-year-old girl were struck. Crowds of pedestrians have returned to the area as pandemic restrictions have lifted and Covid rates recede.