Original Sin Unleashed: December 2023

Child, 12, is charged after chucking alcohol bottles from 32nd floor of Times Square hotel hitting a 24-year-old woman on the head

A 12-year-old child has been charged with reckless endangerment after throwing a bottle of alcohol from the 32nd floor of a New York City hotel skyscraper. A woman was hurt as the bottle hurtled to the ground, hitting her on the head before smashing into pieces by the Intercontinental Times Square. The incident initially caused panic and saw West 44th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenue shut down for a brief time just before 5pm on Friday evening, after those on the street below believed the noise to have been the sound of gunshots. The 12-year-old was charged with reckless endangerment as a juvenile, but the 11-year-old was not charged because of her age. The bottle that was thrown is believed to have been a shooter type, often the kind found in a hotel mini bar. Despite its relatively small size, a 24-year-old woman was injured after being cut in the head by the glass. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is said to be in stable condition. 'It sounded like an explosion or gunshots,' one passerby exclaimed. 'I can understand why people thought it was gunshots. When something falls 32 stories and hits the ground it will make a loud noise,' an NYPD officer told the New York Post. The shutdown of the street lasted for more than one hour and prevented customers from leaving the parking facility. A worker from a nearby branch of Shake Shack told The Post they thought someone might have been trying to jump out of one of the hotel windows. It left workers forced to shelter in place for more than three hours. 'I thought it was a suicide. Everyone was looking up as I was walking into work,' Maria Vasketsova, 21, who works at Sugar Factory, told the paper. Source