2024-02-13 11:23:36
The 15-year-old boy hit a Brazilian tourist and shot a police officer repeatedly.
And 15-year-old Venezuelan is suspected of being the perpetrator of a shooting in Times Squarein New York, and has been detained since last Thursday.
The young man whose name is Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroawas arrested in Yonkers, according to police information.
In this regard, the deputy director of the New York Police Department, Jason Savino, explained that the capture took place without major incidents.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban stated that The shooting in “Times Square was much more than reckless. In the middle of the busiest and busiest area of this city, a criminal with a firearm decided to pull the trigger.”
According to John Chell, patrol chief of the New York Police, Jesús Rivas entered the country in September and was considered armed and dangerous.
“My concern, our concernn, the community’s concern is to get this armed young man off the streets. He is extremely dangerous. Hopefully, we will reach a conclusion on this very soon,” Chell said.
In addition to this fact, it is suspected that the young Venezuelan was involved in an armed robbery in the Bronx and a shooting between 45th Street and Broadway, according to the police authority.
Given this, John Chell expressed: “There are some groups of Venezuelan migrants, I saw some, not all, who “They are affecting crime in our city, more so now than when they got here.”
Details of the Times Square shooting
According to information from the authorities, the teenager of Venezuelan nationality shot a Brazilian tourist inside a Times Square sports store. After that, he shot twice at a police officer in the middle of the chase.
The incident would have occurred after a store security guard approached the young man, who looks completely white, to ask for the ticket for a jacket he had in his bag.
After the officer snatched Rivas’s bag, the teenager reached for a gun in his jacket and fired a shot. However, the bullet hit a 37-year-old Brazilian tourist, according to CNN.
After that, the young man was presented before a court and He was detained without bail and will face charges of attempted murder. In addition, his companions were also arrested.