Times Square gunman who shot tourist is 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa is in police custody Friday

He’s one of three teenagers were stopped by security on Feb 8, as they left JD Sport Store on suspicion of shoplifting

Security guard took a bag with a coat they were stealing and the suspect shot at her

Rivas Figueroa who only entered US in September, missed and hit a Brazilian tourist, then fired at cops as he fled

He is already wanted in two other gun-related crimes – an armed robbery in the Bronx from January 27, and another shooting in Midtown

New York police offered migrants $13,000 reward to help them find suspect

NYPD is offering a $13,500 reward [image], in their hunt for alleged Times Square gunman, Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa, who opened fire on cops during a robbery in Times Square. He missed officers and hit a tourist in the JD Sports store

A recent arrival to the United States teenager believed to be the 15-year-old suspect in Thursday night’s Midtown Manhattan shooting was taken into police custody on Friday.
15-year-old Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa, was caught at 106 Saratoga Aveue in Yonkers by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Recovery Task Force around 3:30 p.m.
The NYPD identified the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting and the attempted murder of a police officer just hours earlier during an NYPD press conference.
Figueroa who arrived from Venezuela in September, was living in a migrant shelter on West 70th Street and carried a .45 caliber handgun that he fired three times on Thursday night, once hitting the 37-year-old female tourist from Brazil, and twice firing toward pursuing officers as he successfully fled the crime scene.

Rivas Figueroa, [photo], a 15-year-old migrant from Venezuela who entered the country in September is now wanted for a string of gun-related crimes in New York

Police earlier identified a gunman who shot at a Brazilian tourist and an NYPD officer on the night of Thursday February 8, as the teen migrant from Venezuela who entered the country in September.
The New York Police Department was offering a $13,500 reward in their hunt for a gunman they said was living at the hotel shelter at the Stratford Hotel in Manhattan.
After less than four months in US, Riva Figueroa is already wanted in two other gun-related crimes – an armed robbery in the Bronx from January 27, and another shooting in Midtown.
Police were seen outside The Stewart hotel on Friday as they searched for the alleged gunman, who is armed with the .45 pistol, he used to open fire at the JD Sports Store in Times Square.

The police search party outside The Stewart hotel on Friday, looking for the alleged gunman believed to be a migrant, Rivas Figueroa, aged between 15 and 20 years old

Police are offering a $13,500 reward in their hunt for the fugitive gunman who injured a Brazilian tourist and shot at cops as they chased him

Chief of Patrol John Chell said on Friday that police have identified the three individuals involved in the Times Square shooting. The other two boys are 15 and 16, and they all go to school together.
Chief Chell said authorities are calling the other teens persons of interest and are still determining what their involvement, if any, was. Neither has been charged.
They were detained shortly after shooting as Rivas Figueroa got away.
‘We need the public’s help to identify and locate this individual before he hurts anyone else. He already shot an innocent person and tried to murder a NYC Police Officer,’ said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Gunfire erupted after a security guard stopped the shooter and two other teenagers as they tried to leave the JD Sports Store in Times Square allegedly, with stolen items.

The NYPD released this surveillance camera shot of the gun-wielding thief who opened fire inside JD Sports in Times Square night, injuring a tourist before fleeing. Authorities said the white-clad figure is Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa

The female guard asked for their receipts and one of the group walked out of the shop empty-handed, but the other two stayed. The guard then grabbed a shopping bag that contained a coat they were allegedly trying to steal, and approached the other teenager. 
The young man then opened fire against the guard, but instead hit a female tourist in the leg, just above the knee, as she was shopping inside the store with a friend. 
After she was shot, the tourist, Taliele Ribeiro Lemos, 38, limped to a storage room and barricaded herself inside as the security guard left the teenagers and rushed to her aid. She was seen being taken away by an ambulance in footage from the scene. 

Challenged by a guard who asked for their receipts, one of the group of immigrant shoplifters walked out of the shop empty-handed, but the other two, including Figueroa [in white], stayed

The gunman, described as a Hispanic male, also shot at police as he fled, according to officials, who said they want to charge him with attempted murder of a police officer. 
Police sources say the alleged gunman is a recent immigrant from Venezuela. 
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said the shooter escaped into the 49th Street subway station.
The gunman and the other person fled on foot. As police gave chase the teen fired twice toward an officer, who drew his gun but did not return fire due to crowds.
The gunman shed his shoes and jacket and ducked into the subway at 46th Street and 6th Avenue where video shows him crossing the tracks and emerging back onto the street.

The NY police hunt group also released this image of the shooting suspect, Hispanic teen Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa, during the manhunt

‘There’s too many people ducking. As the male in the white goes farther into the cut, under his armpit, he fires his second shot at our officer. Again, our officer does not return fire.’
Police say the alleged gunman fled into a subway station at 46th Street and Sixth Avenue and surveillance video shows him running onto the train’s tracks before exiting the subway system.
‘Mid-block on 47th Street, there was a cut between the Fox buildings. As the perpetrator goes in there, he turns one time and fires at our officer. Our officer draws his weapon, but he cannot fire, too many people around,’ Chell said.

EMTs transport a Brazilian tourist injured in Figueroa’s shooting at New York’s landmark Times Square

The suspects left a trail of clothes at West 48th Street and Sixth Avenue as they fled. Police surround Figueroa’s white cap and coat on the sidewalk

Witnesses tied the injured tourist’s shirt around her leg as makeshift tourniquet as staff and other shoppers huddled in the store’s back room. Lemos has since been treated and released from the hospital.
The tourist was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in a stable condition and a policeman who ran out of breath while chasing the suspects was taken to New York-Presbyterian.
Police said the alleged gunman was last seen wearing a white baseball hat, white coat and white pants.
‘At this point, we have numerous resources scouring this area looking for that male,’ Chell said.
‘He shot at our cops not once but twice. He also shot an innocent female one time in the leg. That’s where we stand right now.’

Investigators mark a tool dropped by the marauding, shoplifting immigrant teens as they fled NYC’s Times Square as they fled

It is the latest incident of spiraling crime at the tourist hotspot. 
A gang of seven migrants has been indicted for attacking NYPD officers in Times Square in a separate attack on January 27.