Wild video shows a group of youngsters brawling near Times Square just moments before one of them allegedly pulled a gun and shot a street vendor Wednesday.
The armed thugs were caught on camera chasing down an unidentified man near a food cart at Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street after a 5 a.m. dispute, witnesses and police sources said.
The clip captured a man, who appeared to be armed with a small knife, running away from the group as punches flew.
The screaming youngsters appeared to be trying to retrieve a backpack from the man, the footage shows.
At one point, the man was filmed flinging the bag onto the street before he walked off in the direction of a food cart.
A witness, @PokeAndProdcast, claimed four to five gunshots were fired just moments after he stopped recording.
A 29-year-old food vendor ended up taking a bullet to his right arm, law enforcement sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the street vendor was the knife-wielding man filmed fleeing from the group.
The shooting erupted after a dispute, the sources said.
The injured man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
No arrests had been made of Wednesday morning.
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