{"id":224619,"date":"2026-05-08T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:14:09","slug":"manhattan-shooting-suspect-sought-for-attacking-man-following-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224619\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan shooting suspect sought for attacking man following argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manhattan-shooting-suspect-05082026.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"scene of manhattan shooting where man was seriously wounded\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Manhattan shooting suspect sought for attacking man following argument 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police released images and video Thursday night of the shooter behind the assault, which occurred at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 5, in front of 3613 Broadway, off West 149th Street, in Hamilton Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Photo via Google Maps\/Inset courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Manhattan<\/a> detectives are looking for the suspect who shot a man multiple times after a fight earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police released images and video Thursday night of the shooter behind the assault, which occurred at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 5, in front of 3613 Broadway, off West 149th Street, in Hamilton Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary investigation, law enforcement sources said the gunman became embroiled in a verbal dispute with the victim, a 36-year-old man, for reasons that were not disclosed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The beef turned bloody, cops said, when the perpetrator pulled out a gun and began firing multiple times, striking the victim in both legs, the buttocks and his left hand.\n<\/p>\n<p>After rattling off the shots, police reported, the suspect fled the scene on foot southbound along Broadway.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd30pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">30th Precinct<\/a>. The victim sought treatment via private means at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The images and video police provided show the suspect inside a nearby store on the day of the shooting. Cops described him as a man who was last seen wearing a black-and-white hat, a black sweatshirt, black shorts and dark-colored sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>The 30th Precinct had tallied just one shooting year-to-date as of May 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-030pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the latest CompStat report indicated<\/a>. Felony assaults in the command, however, are up 32.1%, from 56 last year to 74 this year.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released images and video Thursday night of the shooter behind the assault, which occurred at 6:15 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[79677,88306,88307,784,88308,787,88309,75,4126,84,83,9,24,790,63,791,88310,28183,49662,38775,88311],"class_list":["post-224619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-30th-precinct","tag-broadway-shooting","tag-columbia-university-irving-medical-center","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-felony-assault-increase","tag-gun-violence","tag-hamilton-heights","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-crime","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-crime","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-police-news","tag-shooting-victim","tag-surveillance-images","tag-suspect-search","tag-verbal-dispute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}