omg, 2 dead and 10 injured......so far.
Just awful.
ETA: it's not terror related.
I was just about to post this. WTF is going on? From now on, I don't want to hear right-wing fanatics jabbering on about MUSLIM TERRORISTS. We don't need them to kill Americans. Muslim Terrorists are just sitting back and laughing watching us kill each other.
This is awful. I read that one of the bullets bounced and hit someone in a Duane Reede. WTF is wrong with people.
My summer job building was just a few blocks down on 5th Ave. Wouldn't often go to that area except to the comics book store right around the ESB.
This is insane. ABC 7 initially said possible robbery but an early morning robbery with that many people sprayed with bullets?
The reports of shot and injured are all over the place. Only confirmation is the shooter being dead.
"A dispute between co-workers"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/shot_at_empire_state_building_Ycd08ZMPwDQf7r8qSKX3yO
I'm seeing different numbers. In that article PJ, it says the gunman killed two people, one his target, the other a bystander, and then cops killed him.
On CNN, they are reporting 2 dead, including the gunman.
I literally walked out of the DMV one block away when this happened. As if going to the DMV first thing in the morning wasn't unsettling enough!
And mass shootings in Chicago...
So, gun control seems to be working.....
I literally walked out of the DMV one block away when this happened. As if going to the DMV first thing in the morning wasn't unsettling enough!
The DMV is on 8th Avenue
That's the nice, fast one PJ. I had to go to the crummy one at Herald Square - 1293 Broadway, around where Broadway and 6th cross.
Supposedly the gunman got fired yesterday and came back to kill his boss today. He wasn't allowed entrance into the building so he waited outside. The cops seemed to be on the scene instantly. I guess the security who wouldn't let him in the building notified them.
He was a "designer of women's accessories."
Shooter kills his ex-boss, opens fire and injures seven others near Empire State building amid Midtown Manhattan morning rush
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Chicago has serious gang problems. It's always had a high homicide rate but they've been good at keeping it quiet. For some reason (probably Obama and Rahm) the national media is picking up on it more now.
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