BREAKING NEWS: SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT NEAR EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Post says dispute between co-workers that erupted into gunfire and that a female bystander was also killed.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/shot_at_empire_state_building_Ycd08ZMPwDQf7r8qSKX3yO

NBC4 saying disgruntled employee.

 

I don't disagree.

But what passes for TV journalism today has very little to do with ethics or responsibility.

 

^^^^^

 

From the Daily News. Sounds like killer was targeting a guy, shot him in the head. Then walked out onto the street where police confronted him. Unclear if people were injured by him shooting or caught in the crossfire.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/person-killed-shooting-empire-state-building-morning-rush-article-1.1143522

 

Bloomberg press conference coming up. Rumor has it the shooter drank a couple super size cokes.

 

Geez. In front of the Empire State Building at 9 a.m. on a Friday morning? I can't imagine how many people must've been in the vicinity.

 

And print is not what it used to be either...


A cold-blooded killer was gunned down by police Friday morning after he pumped two bullets into a man outside an entrance to the Empire State Building, cops and witnesses said.

Seven other people were wounded when the gunfire erupted shortly after 9 a.m. on the crowded rush hour sidewalks outside the iconic midtown skyscraper.

The shooting was apparently sparked by a dispute between co-workers at a business located inside the Empire State, sources told the Daily News.

Construction worker Chris Ogden was working on a scaffold above the building’s 33rd St. entrance when he watched in disbelief as the gunman — in a suit and carrying a briefcase — opened fire.

“He shot the guy in the head,” said Ogden, 23. “The guy went down. He took a second shot when he was down.”

The well-dressed shooter then “walked down the block, like nothing was happening, real casual,” Ogden said. “We were screaming from the top, ‘It’s the guy in the grey suit!’”



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/person-killed-shooting-empire-state-building-morning-rush-article-1.1143522#ixzz24TPbPsgh


And if this guy was Asain, Hispanic, Black or anything other than white, it's in the lede. Say that he was white.

 

It's a miracle more people weren't wounded or killed.

 

now says 2 are dead. at first just said 4 injured, gunman killed by cops.

 

And we'll soon find out if this is the random mass shooting - sounds like it's not - or the normal everyday gun violence that erupts every day and we just accept as, well, that happens. Sounds like this one could be a combo: A targeted victim but with mass casualties as collateral damage.

Junod yesterday on the summer of shootings:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/black-heart-11981742

 

2 dead = victim & shooter or two victims plus the shooter?