A man died Saturday after being shot during a dispute at a subway station in Manhattan\u2019s Theater District, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to reports of gunfire at the 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue subway station around 12:21 p.m., police said. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:06 p.m. <\/p>\n
The station serves Midtown Manhattan, an area crowded with tourists and theatergoers.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not name the victim, pending notification of his family, and said he was \u201cpossibly\u201d in his 30s. <\/p>\n
Police are searching for a man in connection with the shooting. In a statement, NYPD said the man approached the victim on the northbound E train platform, shot him once in the chest and fled on foot. <\/p>\n
At a news conference, police said a dispute between two men moved from the platform onto a train and back onto the platform. Investigators were still determining where the shots were fired, police said at the briefing.<\/p>\n
Police said the shooting was not a random act.<\/p>\n
The perpetrator \u201cshould face maximum consequences from the justice system,\u201d MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is fortunate nobody outside the fight was hurt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Yellow police tape blocked the entrance to the Seventh Avenue subway station Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died Saturday after being shot during a dispute at a subway station in Manhattan\u2019s Theater District,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-375869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375869","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=375869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}