{"id":334184,"date":"2026-08-31T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334184\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:26:30","slug":"nypd-investigating-police-shooting-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334184\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD investigating police shooting in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD is investigating a police shooting that occurred in Times Square on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources say officers responded to West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue after receiving a call over the radio for a &#8220;person with a knife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One witness told CBS News New York he saw a woman carrying two knives and heard police officers instruct her to put the knives down. He said he heard gunfire shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate word on how many shots were fired. An ambulance was seen leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD told the public on social media, &#8220;Expect traffic delays, road closures, mass transit disruptions &amp; emergency personnel near 42nd Street &amp; 7th Avenue, Manhattan. Avoid the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is investigating a police shooting that occurred in Times Square on Monday afternoon. Police sources say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,103,20873,2027],"class_list":["post-334184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-police-shooting","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334184","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=334184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}