Three NYPD officers injured in machete attack near New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, officials say - CNN

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Three New York City constabulary officers are successful unchangeable information aft being struck by a antheral wielding a machete successful an unprovoked onslaught adjacent Times Square, according to the NYPD commissioner.

The onslaught occurred conscionable aft 10 p.m. Saturday connected West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue, extracurricular a Times Square New Year’s Eve information screening zone, Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.

The suspect, identified lone arsenic a 19-year-old man, approached an serviceman and attempted to onslaught him implicit the caput with a machete, Sewell said. The fishy past struck 2 further officers earlier 1 fired his work weapon, striking the fishy successful the shoulder. The fishy is being treated for his injuries, Sewell said.

The FBI, NYPD and Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating, officials said successful an aboriginal New Year’s Day associated quality conference.

“I privation to beryllium precise wide … determination is nary ongoing threat,” said Mike Driscoll, the FBI adjunct manager successful complaint of the New York tract office.

“We judge this was a sole idiosyncratic astatine this time,” helium said, adding, “There is thing to bespeak otherwise.”

One officer, a caller postgraduate of the constabulary academy, suffered a skull fracture and a ample laceration to his head, Sewell said. Another officer, an 8-year veteran, suffered a laceration, the commissioner said. She did not elaborate connected injuries to the 3rd officer.

Driscoll said the FBI, done the task force, is moving intimately with NYPD to find the quality of the onslaught and “will tally each pb to the ground.”

The authorities did not elaborate connected a imaginable motive and said the probe is successful preliminary stages.

New York Mayor Eric Adams praised the constabulary response, saying responding officers instantly secured the country and acted “with a level of professionalism that we expect from each of our officers.”

After getting their chap officers assistance and subduing the suspect, responding officers returned to their posts “because we inactive had a metropolis we had to protect,” Adams said, referencing New Year’s Eve celebrations.