BREAKING NEWS: SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT NEAR EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

[Chef2]

Still developing. No word on deaths, etc, etc.....

 

[Mizzougrad96]

This summer has just been insane...

 

[Chef2]

per AP.

9:32 AM8/24/2012
NEW YORK (AP) — NYC police: 3 or 4 civilians wounded in shooting near Empire State Building, shooter is dead.

 

[Gehrig]

CNN

As many as five people were shot Friday in front of the Empire State Building in New York, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department said.

Authorities converged on the building around 9 a.m. after reports of gunfire.

Additional details were not immediately available.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Well, they'll be able to pry the gun out of his warm, dead hands.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

 

[Chef2]

Well, they'll be able to pry the gun out of his warm, dead hands.

That didn't take long.

 

[Chef2]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

 

[Azrael]

Hard to tell for sure, but local news has 10 shot, shooter DOA, at least one victim critical. FBI on the scene.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Yeah, it's one of those terms where if someone really decided to be a **** about it could say, "Any attack like this is one of terrorism."

It's grossly irresponsible until more information is known.

 

[Armchair_QB]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

Because people are more likely to stop and watch if the word "terrorist" is in the headline.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

Because people are more likely to stop and watch if the word "terrorist" is in the headline.

Very true, but still grossly irresponsible...

 

[Small Town Guy]

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.

 

[Armchair_QB]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

Because people are more likely to stop and watch if the word "terrorist" is in the headline.

Very true, but still grossly irresponsible...

I don't disagree.

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

 

[Chef2]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

Because people are more likely to stop and watch if the word "terrorist" is in the headline.

Very true, but still grossly irresponsible...

I don't disagree.

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

^^^^^

 

[Small Town Guy]

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

 

[The Big Ragu]

I am shuddering thinking about this. 5th Ave. and 34th Street is a zoo of people at that time of the morning. It would be impossible to fire a gun without even aiming and not hit someone.

 

[cjericho]

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

 

[JosephC.Myers]

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.

 

[93Devil]

One of the networks initially reported it as a "terrorist attack" but that headline was changed very quickly... To be fair, the headline called it that, the story did not.

I will never understand why some of the networks glorify that term. Every time someone gets shot, someone is saying that it's a terrorist attack.

Because people are more likely to stop and watch if the word "terrorist" is in the headline.

Very true, but still grossly irresponsible...

I don't disagree.

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

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.