Three police officers were injured in a machete attack near the area where the festivities took place Times Squarethe suspect has been arrested, authorities said New York this Sunday.
The mayor of the city, Eric Adams, responded Chirping that police officers are in stable condition and in good spirits while the attacker is in custody, and linked to a photograph of the seized knife.
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Adams attended a news conference about the incident with local police chief Keechant Sewell this morning, where it was explained that the attack occurred without provocation just a few blocks from the festivities at the intersection of 52nd Street and Eighth Ave.
Sewell revealed that the inmate, a 19-year-old man, attacked three officers in the head with a machete after 10pm, resulting in two lacerations and one of them also a fractured skull.
One of the officers stopped the attack by shooting the suspect in the shoulder, Sewell said.
The authorities have indicated that they are investigating the incident together with the counter-terrorism team of FBIbut he stressed that there was no credible threat to the city, which has suffered in recent years a marked increase in violence.
According to the abc channel, the inmateadmitted for the gunshot wound, arrived from the state of Maine on New Year’s, he had posted messages on the internet that might indicate recent Islamist radicalisation, and his relatives had communicated their concerns to the authorities.
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In mass events such as the dand New Years in Times Square the city tightens its security and last night had deployed an operation of thousands of police officers in the center of manhattanwhere the outdoor celebration was held at full capacity for the first time in two years and without incident.
