Times Square shooter who wounded tourist identified as teen migrant | US Newsthedigitalchaps

A shooter wanted for injuring a tourist at a Times Square sporting goods store has been identified as a 15-year-old migrant from Venezuela who is ‘armed and dangerous’.

Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa was named as a person of interest in connection with the Thursday night crime, said New York police Chief of Patrol John Chell on Friday.

Rivas-Figueroa is believed to have a ‘very large’ .40-caliber handgun in his possession, said Chell, according to the New York Post.

He arrived from Venezuela in September and had bene living in a temporary shelter at the Stafford Hotel, according to the chief of patrol.

Three teen boys, two aged 15 and one 16, entered JD Sports around 7pm on Thursday and began shoplifting on the second floor, Chell said. Two of them made it down to the lobby, where a female security guard confiscated the items.

One of the teens then fired a .45 caliber handgun at the guard but instead shot a 37-year-old tourist from Brazil, according to cops.

‘He had no problems firing into a crowd at a store… and not shooting at cops once, but shooting at them twice,’ said Chell of Rivas-Figueroa.

‘We’re not gonna put up with this.’

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