7 people arrested, 16 others wanted in Times Square stabbing of teen: NYPD

good morning to you Craig a lot to get to here let's start we're we're standing right here on 42nd Street steps away from a migrant shelter where the stabbing happened last night police say a 17-year-old was stabbed in the back they have arrested several people in connection to the stabbing they're still looking for 16 more people that means 23 people could have been involved in what happened here last night after 5:30 p.m. it was Steps From the migrant shelter where two NYPD officers were assau

lted last month and a police Source tells us the victim in this stabbing may have been a migrant I saw someone running and there other cops coming up to P him and the cops jump and catch him and arrest him and I saw the other guy coming with the blood coming from the back from everywhere then less than two hours later police went running to another scene around the corner on Broadway that's where they found a man on the ground bleeding from his head in front of the Hard Rock Cafe mounted units w

ere called in to help secure the area which was flooded with tourists officers arrested three men there a witness says the victim was antagonizing people prior to being attacked he came over to me and uh he was trying to start fights with other people then he went off and then when he were coming he came back and there was a cop there and there was four other people or three other kids beaten a actually four and they were beating up on him and he was Bloody back out here in Time Square that man

who was beat up was taken to the hospital but was upright and conscious on his way there as far as the teenager who was stabbed that person is at Belleview and is expected to survive police though tell me they are still investigating the circumstances that led up to the stabbing and what led to all that violence here last night in Times Square that's the latest from Time Square I'm Julie Malay Pix 11 news all right