The bystanders, two women from Manhattan, happened to be walking in the area when the officers opened fire, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference at Bellevue Hospital Center early Sunday morning. A bullet hit one woman, 54, in the leg, fracturing her tibia and fibula, Mr. Kelly said. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she was expected to undergo surgery. The other woman, 35, suffered a graze wound to the buttock. She was treated at Roosevelt Hospital and was in the process of being released, Mr. Kelly said. Both women were shot on the northeast corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. Neither woman was identified. The agitated man, who witnesses and officials said had been darting in front of cars on 42nd Street at Eighth Avenue, was in police custody at Bellevue, Mr. Kelly said. The man’s identity was not immediately disclosed. The man is 35 years old and from New York, Mr. Kelly said. Witnesses said the man was hit by several cars. The extent of his injuries was unclear. In a video of the episode captured by a witness on his cellphone, the man is seen running erratically around the intersection as officers try to corral him out of the street. “He was just wandering, running away from the cop,” said a witness who described himself as a retired police officer and did not want to be named. “He tried to run and ended up getting hit by three different cars.” But at the news conference early Sunday, Mr. Kelly, citing the preliminary investigation, said the man had not been hit by any cars. “It appeared that he wanted to be struck by cars,” Mr. Kelly said. At one point, the man put his hand in his pants, then withdrew it and mimicked shooting at the officers, the commissioner said, though the man's hand was empty. That is when the two officers opened fire. One officer fired one shot, and the other fired two shots, Mr. Kelly said. Neither officer's bullets hit the man. He was later surrounded by officers, shocked with a Taser and subdued, Mr. Kelly said. The police later wheeled the man into an ambulance. He was conscious and sitting upright, dressed in a green sweater. He appeared to be handcuffed. He only had a wallet in his possession, Mr. Kelly said. One of the officers involved had been with the Police Department for one and a half years, Mr. Kelly said. The other had three years of experience. Neither had been involved in any shootings before Saturday, he said.