A man has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of New York Jets NFL player Kris Boyd.<\/p>\n
The suspect was Bronx resident Frederick Green, 20, who was arrested on Monday and charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.<\/p>\n
Boyd was shot outside a popular New York City restaurant at 02:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on 16 November, during what police described as a confrontation with a group of strangers.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a bullet hit his lung and lodged in his pulmonary artery. He was later discharged.<\/p>\n
ESPN has reported that he recently visited his teammates at a Jets practice facility.<\/p>\n
Boyd was with two other Jets players and a third friend in Midtown Manhattan when they were taunted by a group of strangers outside a restaurant, according to the police account of events that was provided to CBS.<\/p>\n
That led to a physical confrontation, during which police allege Green shot Boyd twice in the abdomen.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the area showed Green run away and get into a vehicle driven by another person, it is alleged.<\/p>\n
Green was arrested on 8 December about 580km (360 miles) away in the city of Buffalo, where he was hiding at his girlfriend’s apartment, law enforcement sources told CBS.<\/p>\n
A statement from the US Marshals Service confirmed that “a person of interest” had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n
When law enforcement surrounded the building, the suspect was seen “peeking out the apartment window looking for an escape avenue but retreated inside after seeing the team and a canine officer,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
The stand-off ended soon after, when the suspect left the apartment with his hands up.<\/p>\n
The suspect had “significantly changed his physical appearance presumably to avoid detection”, the US Marshals Service added.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining the Jets earlier this year, Boyd played two seasons with the Houston Texans, following one season with the Arizona Cardinals and four seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n
The cornerback had been on injured reserve for the Jets after suffering a shoulder injury during team practice in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of New York Jets NFL player Kris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-341072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}