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Eleven People Shot Outside Empire State Building
By JAMES BARRON, DAVID M. HALBFINGER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Eleven people were shot, two fatally, after a gunman opened fire outside the Empire State Building on Friday. The suspect, who was shot and killed by the police, was identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 58.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/n....html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20120824
One law enforcement official said that based on the preliminary investigation, it appears that most or all of the bystanders were struck by one of the 16 police bullets – or fragments or ricochets from those rounds – that were fired by the two officers who confronted Mr. Johnson.
Detectives believe that Mr. Johnson had fired five shots at Mr. Ercolino and may have fired one shot at the police officers, the official said. There were two bullets left in the eight-round magazine of his gun so only one shot – the one apparently fired at the officers -- could have possibly hit one of the nine bystanders, the official said.
One of the officers fired nine times and the other seven times.
By JAMES BARRON, DAVID M. HALBFINGER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Eleven people were shot, two fatally, after a gunman opened fire outside the Empire State Building on Friday. The suspect, who was shot and killed by the police, was identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 58.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/n....html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20120824
One law enforcement official said that based on the preliminary investigation, it appears that most or all of the bystanders were struck by one of the 16 police bullets – or fragments or ricochets from those rounds – that were fired by the two officers who confronted Mr. Johnson.
Detectives believe that Mr. Johnson had fired five shots at Mr. Ercolino and may have fired one shot at the police officers, the official said. There were two bullets left in the eight-round magazine of his gun so only one shot – the one apparently fired at the officers -- could have possibly hit one of the nine bystanders, the official said.
One of the officers fired nine times and the other seven times.
