The New York Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect who reportedly shot a 47-year-old man on the Upper West Side and ran into Central Park.
The victim was hit in his leg and shoulder at around 9.30 am at West 69th Street and Columbus Avenue today morning.
Footage from the scene shows shards of broken glass on the street near a bus stop.
He was rushed to the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital by emergency responders and is expected to survive, according to the New York Daily News.
Officials believe the suspect ran into the subway for C/B/A lines at 72nd Street and Central Park West – where he jumped down onto the tracks and ran into a train tunnel going north.
There were widespread rumors that the suspect had been pinned underneath an oncoming train, but authorities have since debunked them.
Responding officers had the station’s power line turned off to walk the tracks – but to no avail.
They now believe the suspect may have escaped the tunnel through an emergency exit at 76th Street and are now searching the Park itself.
According to ABC News, the gunman is six feet tall and was last seen wearing a white hat, green jacket, blue under hoodie while holding a black gun in his hand.
New Yorker Steve Greene, an eyewitness, told the channel: ‘I heard two loud shots. And I jumped out of my car and ran down here and saw the shooter.
‘And he was right here pointing a gun, I heard the glass shatter. I’m not sure how that happened. There was a truck parked here blocking my view and he walked on the other side.’
It remains unclear what kind of injuries did the victim sustain and whether the men knew each other prior to the altercation.
Officials have also not clarified what caused the gunman to fire on the 47-year-old man.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the New York Police Department for more information.
The incident comes two months after four people were shot including a NYPD cop at a major subway station in Brooklyn during a horrific daylight gunfight.
One person has been reported dead and two injured, law enforcement officials said.
The gunfight took place at Sutter Avenue Station in East New York, Brooklyn around 3pm. Officers later took Derell Mickles, 37, into custody a suspect.
Police say that two officers assigned to transit detail followed the accused up the stairs who hadn’t paid his fare and jumped the turnstile.
“The officers are asking him to stop. The male is refusing to stop at a certain point on the platform.
The male, he mutters the words, ‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t stop following me,'” said NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey.
After leaving voluntarily, he came back to station, jumped the turnstile again, verbally threatened the officers and then pulled out the knife.
Despite being warned 38 times, the suspect did not waver and had to be tasered by the cops.
But this did not subdue him and he ended up in a physical fight with them
One officer was reported to have been shot on the right side of the torso while a 26-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet and 49-year-old Gregory Delpeche was left critically injured, according ABC7.
A second officer was taken to the hospital but was not shot.