New York Times – by MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Confronted by an agitated man who at one point lay down in the middle of a crowded intersection in Times Square, two police officers fired shots late Saturday evening at the man, striking two bystanders instead, the police said.
Both bystanders are women from Manhattan, and happened to be walking in the vicinity when the police officers opened fire, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference at Bellevue Hospital Center early Sunday morning. Continue reading “Firing at Man in Times Square, Police Wound Two Bystanders”