Suspected Times Square gunman back in NYC

Saturday, May 29, 2021
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The suspected Times Square gunman is back in New York City.

Farrakhan Muhammed has been extradited from Florida, where U.S. Marshals found him eating outside a McDonald's in the Jacksonville area.

Times Square suspected shooter back in NYC


Authorities say Muhammed appeared to have been staying there with a female believed to be his girlfriend, who has family in Florida. She is being considered as a person of interest but has not been charged.



Muhammed is accused of shooting two women and a four-year-old girl earlier in May.

Police believe he was aiming at his own brother.

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