A man was shot and wounded by New York City police on Sunday, December 13, after shooting into crowds gathered for a Christmas carol concert outside a city church.
No information on possible injuries was given after the shooting.
Witnesses did not report any casualties.
A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said officers used their guns after the man began shooting.
“He is seriously injured,”
she said.
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An AFP reporter who witnessed the scene reported that the man fired outside the Church of St John the Divine in Manhattan as a few hundred people began to disperse after the chanting ended.
“I heard two or three bangs,”
she said.
“I looked up and maybe ten meters away from me on the steps there was a guy shooting,”
she said.
"I saw the flames coming out of the cannon, I started to run, to save my skin
.
"
Martha Stolley, another witness, estimated that the man fired eight or ten times before he was shot by police.
"He was shooting without aiming,"
she told AFP, adding that the man was shouting
"Take me down, kill me!"
.
