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Toddler Among Three Shot in Broad Daylight at Times Square

Gunfire erupted after a dispute between several men led to one of them pulling out a gun and firing, striking several innocent bystanders.

Gunfire erupted in Times Square in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon, leaving three people, including a 4-year-old, hospitalized. The shooting occurred just before 5 p.m., after a group of men began arguing and one of them whipped out a gun and opened fire, according to the New York Daily News. Police say a 4-year-old girl was struck in the leg, and a woman in her 20s was also injured, as was a woman in her 40s. None of the victims were related, and they were all expected to survive. “I heard three loud shots,” Sandy Espinoza, a witness who was visiting the city from Illinois, told the Daily News. “Everybody was running. People were panicking and screaming. It was like a stampede of people. We were worrying we were going to get run over by people. We ran with everyone else.” The NYPD has released a photo of a person of interest in connection with the shooting, but no one was in custody as of Saturday evening.