{"id":302739,"date":"2026-07-22T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:48:08","slug":"bronx-man-arrested-after-three-people-stabbed-in-times-square-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302739\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man arrested after three people stabbed in Times Square: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were stabbed on the edge of Times Square late Tuesday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a 911 call outside Applebee\u2019s on 50th Street and 7th Avenue around 10:30 p.m. and found three men with stab and slash wounds, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old man suffered a stab wound to the torso and a laceration to his leg; a 26-year-old man had cuts on both of his hands and left leg; and an unidentified adult man had was slashed on his left leg, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40054962\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/KevinCDowns_Stabbing_7thAve_50st_359502-1.jpg\" alt=\"The NYPD investigating a series of stabbings in Manhattan on Tuesday night.\" class=\"wp-image-40054962\"  \/>The NYPD investigating a series of stabbings in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40054957\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/crop-40054955.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigate a crime scene where a black car is cordoned off with yellow tape.\" class=\"wp-image-40054957\"  \/>NEW YORK, July 21, 2026 Police investigate the scene after a man was reportedly stabbed in the torso and suffered lacerations to a leg near Seventh Avenue and West 50th. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>All three were taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Breshan Watson, 24, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault, two counts of menacing and two counts of possession of a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what led to the stabbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were stabbed on the edge of Times Square late Tuesday, according to police. Police responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,57,9,24,63,2442,129,131,130,2027,58],"class_list":["post-302739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-times-square","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302739","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=302739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}