A suspected gun-toting teen who fired into a crowd in Times Square on Saturday, wounding three people — including two innocent bystanders — was ordered held on $200,000 bail Sunday.
Suspect Jayden Clark, 17, was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on attempted-murder charges in the early-morning shooting that wounded his target, a 19-year-old man, in the leg — and also injured a 65-year-old bystander and grazed an 18-year-old female tourist from Maryland in the neck, cops said.
“All sequences of these events were captured on high-definition surveillance cameras,” Manhattan prosecutor Sidney Balman told the judge at Clark’s hearing.
“While on 44th Street, the defendant pulled out a firearm, pointed it at the individuals coming out of the restaurant and fired three rounds,” Balman said.
“The defendant hit one male who was part of the group in the restaurant that called him out, as well as other innocent bystanders.”
Clark, who avoided making eye contact with his mother and sister in court, had gotten into an argument with a Citibike rider inside the nearby Raising Canes restaurant on Broadway around 1 a.m. before the shooting, authorities said.
Once outside, he opened fire on a group of cyclists, hitting the 19-year-old as well as the older bystander and the young tourist, who was driving by with her parents and her 11-year-old twin siblings, officials said.
Clark was charged with three counts of attempted murder and gun possession and ordered held on bail by Judge Christopher Chin.
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