India, May 1 -- Emanuel Charles, a 21-year-old man from New York, is now at the center of a chaotic early morning shooting that sent a Times Square food vendor to the hospital and rattled one of the busiest intersections in the city.

The New York Police Department confirmed Charles was arrested Wednesday following an altercation that erupted just before 5 a.m. near Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street - a crossroads that typically sees tens of thousands of visitors each day. But on this particular morning, the scene turned violent when a scuffle broke out between a group of young men and another individual wielding a knife.

NYPD later reported that Charles and four others were caught on video in a tense physical confrontation with the ma...