{"id":334210,"date":"2026-08-31T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:58:07","slug":"times-square-intersection-shut-down-after-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334210\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square intersection shut down after officer-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">The NYPD urged people to avoid a busy Times Square intersection Monday afternoon as officers investigated a police-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Police warned the public to avoid West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue and expect delays in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital that a police-involved shooting had happened, but provided no additional details.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">A witness claimed on social media that a woman was &#8220;running around stabbing people.&#8221; A video posted to social media showed a woman wielding what appeared to be a knife. She appeared to approach a group of police officers with the knife and was shot.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Stepheny Price is a Writer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fox News <\/a>with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The NYPD urged people to avoid a busy Times Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1026,75,84,83,9,24,63,3286],"class_list":["post-334210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime-world","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police-and-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334210","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=334210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}