Three people were stabbed after what WABC 7 calls a "wild fight outside" a restaurant on West 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Midtown Manhattan. According to the NYPD, at 1:27 a.m., a 19-year-old woman was stabbed in the left forearm, a 20 year-old male was stabbed in the back, and another 20-year-old male was stabbed in the left shoulder; all three were taken to Bellevue Hospital. It's unclear what caused the altercation. Five individuals were taken into custody; charges are pending and the investigation is continuing.
Stabbing On West 45th Street, Three Injured
Failed Times Square Car Bomb Could Be Part Of Int'l Plot
So that apparently poorly constructed, possibly amateurish car bomb left in a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder parked on West 45th Street in Times Square? Now the Washington Post reports it "increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links, Obama administration officials said Tuesday. Emerging from a series of briefings, several officials said it was premature to rule out any motive but said the sweeping, multi-state investigation was turning up new clues."
Cops Speak To Owner Of Times Square Car Bomb SUV
The Connecticut license plates on the SUV matched a Ford; according to WFSB, "The investigation led agents to a scrapyard in Stratford and a shoreline car dealership. Police said the Pathfinder could have been sold from Thomas Anthony Auto in Bridgeport at some point. The SUV's vehicle identification number led officials to the dealership... Police were also at Kramer's scrapyard in Stratford in a search to hunt down the license plates, which they said came off a pickup truck."
Video Of Times Square Car Bomb "Person Of Interest"
The NYPD released a 19-second video of a man who was caught looking around in a furtive manner in the hours before a car bomb was found in Times Square on Saturday night. While Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the man could be totally innocent, the police are hoping the public may be able to identify the figure, a white man in his 40s, who takes off a dark shirt (revealing a red shirt), puts it into a bag, and walks down Shubert Alley (which runs between 44th and 45th Streets), or that the man will come forward. The Nissan Pathfinder SUV that was found with M88 fireworks, gasoline, propane, alarm clocks and non-explosive fertilizer was parked on West 45th Street.
Another Midtown Melee This Afternoon
Last week there was a shooting outside of a Starbucks on 56th Street, yesterday morning a man was robbed and killed on East 39th Street, and now the NYPD is reporting that three people were stabbed near 45th and 5th at lunchtime today.

