Shooting at Empire State Building

Super-Rush

Another shooting reported in NYC outside the Empire State building.

Police are on the scene of a shooting at the Empire State Building this morning.

Details are limited but NY1 is hearing multiple shots rang out just before 9 a.m. and that two people have been wounded.

Due to the investigation, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue are closed in the immediate area.

NY1 has a crew headed to the scene and will have more information as it becomes available.

Source.

Reports on Twitter that 7 people have been shot including the perpetrator.

Tis all gone a bit mad over there.

gerrybbadd

Fire officials report that several people have been shot near the Empire State building in New York.
Source - Breakingnews.ie

That_Guy

@NYC911 via Twitter

MANHATTAN: E34 X 5TH AVE, MULTIPLE CIVILIANS SHOT, PERP HAS BEEN SHOT DOA BY POLICE. 9:21:50 AM

clappyhappy

9/11 fast approaching, America will be on high alert. Hope no one was killed.

Prettyfireworks

8 shot, two killed including the shooter according to Spin 103.8 news

gerrybbadd

This is the latest:

Several people have been shot outside New York’s Empire State Building.

City police said three or four civilians were wounded in this morning’s shooting and that the gunman is dead.

A fire department spokesman said it received a call about the shooting just after 9am local time (2pm Irish Time) and that emergency units were on the scene within minutes.

The spokesman had no information about how many people were wounded or their conditions.

The shooting occurred at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

fishy fishy

I find the cluster of shooting incidents recently in the States very, very bizarre.What is going on over there - it's like once a week now nearly.

gerrybbadd

RTE.ie are reporting 2 killed, 8 or more injured...:eek:

fishy fishy

it happened on 34th Street (as in Miracle on 34th Street film??)

marshbaboon

fishy fishy wrote: »

I find the cluster of shooting incidents recently in the States very, very bizarre.What is going on over there - it's like once a week now nearly.

Not really, just more seem to be getting reported on lately. US is and has been one of the top countries for firearm related crime/deaths for many years.

Knex*

Jayus, I saw a bit of a clusterfuck with police this morning when walking to work but didn't for a second think it was another shooting :eek:

Super-Rush

Threads merged.

Update via Twitter.

NY Scanner ‏@NYScanner
U/D Manhattan: 5 Ave & East 34 St/Empire State Bldg Report that Perp was fired from his job came back and started shooting 10 Victims 2 DOA.

westendgirlie

Pics of a dead man already up on twitter

MHalberstram

It's as American as Apple Pie.

Get fired. Return fire.


What a fcuked up country.

My name is URL

Was just reading about the following too

http://www.thejournal.ie/19-shot-in-overnight-violence-in-chicago-571449-Aug2012/

19 people were shot and wounded in an outbreak of violence in Chicago overnight.

According to the Associated Press 13 people including young teenagers were injured in one 30 minute spate of shooting, with eight gunned down on a single street.

Nuts

JONJO THE MISER

Watching now on fox news, they say a nypd and mayor press conference will commence shortly, more to follow............

JONJO THE MISER

Floods of cameras and press running to the scene.

CreepingDeath

The Empire strikes back...

fishy fishy

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Floods of cameras and press running to the scene.

I didn't think cameras and presses could run











ya, I know, I'll get my coat.

JONJO THE MISER

Suspect was a middle aged well dressed white man says 1 eye witnesss, more to follow...............

mikom

Save ye some time....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_York

Seaneh

fishy fishy wrote: »

I find the cluster of shooting incidents recently in the States very, very bizarre.What is going on over there - it's like once a week now nearly.

People get shot every day in neywork.

El Guapo!

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Suspect was a middle aged well dressed white man says 1 eye witnesss, more to follow...............

They can hardly trust the reports of a man with one eye........





On a serious note.....crazy stuff altogether. I wonder what the motivation was, or was it just some nutter.

fishy fishy

Seaneh wrote: »

People get shot every day in neywork.

wow does everyone have a gun accessory or what?

fishy fishy

Dean09 wrote: »

They can hardly trust the reports of a man with one eye........




:o:o




stop, or we will be slaughter for not being serious

JONJO THE MISER

Gentleman in question was fired from his job yesterday and came back to his job today loaded.

garv123

How long before people say police brutality for shooting the gunman...

They clearly should have used martial arts and a arm lock to disarm him.




:pac::pac:

mike65

This wouldn't have happened if everyone in New York was armed you know!

Cantona's Collars

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-2193065-14AD6BF1000005DC-383_634x398.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-2193065-14AD5CFA000005DC-65_634x568.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-2193065-14AD5A22000005DC-221_634x424.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-2193065-14AD438C000005DC-463_634x436.jpg

Some pics from the scene,seems the shooting was a result of a dispute between 2 co-workers.

El Guapo!

garv123 wrote: »

How long before people say police brutality for shooting the gunman...

They clearly should have used martial arts and a arm lock to disarm him.




:pac::pac:

No they should've use their expert marksmanship skills to shoot the gun out of his hand and then tickled him into the back of the squad car.

meoklmrk91

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Gentleman in question was fired from his job yesterday and came back to his job today loaded.

Confirmed by the FBI.

MagicMarker

What was his job?

mike65

Newscopter? I prefer the Babelcopter myself.

mikom

So did those bi-planes get that gorilla?

Bipolar Joe

MagicMarker wrote: »

What was his job?

Not shooting people, was doing well until today, but what with the recession and all.......

Knex*

Turns out I was less than ten minutes away from this when it happened. Crazy.

New York is a bit mental right now, still a fair few sirens going off and a lot of police out on the streets. Everyone is a little uptight and antsy.

JONJO THE MISER

Gridlock all around New York city as police have closed off a few blocks around the empire state building.

Seaneh

fishy fishy wrote: »

wow does everyone have a gun accessory or what?

in a city of 18million people with hundreds of thousands living in housing projects (basically"the ghetto") with a massive problem with drug and gun crime, people get shot. lots.

meoklmrk91

Some pics on Reddit not for the faint of heart, I'm all for citizen journalism but seriously taking pics of people lying on the ground after being shot is terribly distasteful.

JONJO THE MISER

The suspect killed his former boss, this is now confirmed.

mikom

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Gridlock all around New York city as police have closed off a few blocks around the empire state building.

Are you there JONJO?
Is today not collection day in Galway?

JONJO THE MISER

Haven Imports is the name of the company and it makes lady handbags, the suspect was a designer and the man who he killed is the manager, more to follow...........

fishy fishy

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Confirmed by the FBI.

what do you mean "loaded" - was he drunk? :eek:

meoklmrk91

ABC reporting that the guy worked in the Empire State Building, rumours on reddit say as a ticket vendor, fired yesterday and went back to confront his manager, was turned away by security, waited outside for the manager walked up to the manager and shot him in the head, there is a picture of a man on the ground floating around, who appears to be dead. I hope his poor family don't ever see it.

Lone foot patrol NYPD officer, who was patrolling the area shot the perpetrator with 1 shot.

al28283

Someone, somewhere right now is feverishly creating a Conspiracy theory about this.

MagicMarker

al28283 wrote: »

Someone, somewhere right now is feverishly creating a Conspiracy theory about this.

Run to da hills will be along any minute now.

meoklmrk91

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Haven Imports is the name of the company and it makes lady handbags, the suspect was a designer and the man who he killed is the manager, more to follow...........

Nice work Jonjo, you had better info than ABC, now where did you get that from?

Fart

Reading about reports that the police officer in the shoot out could have shot innocent bystanders also. Presumably accidental, of course.

meoklmrk91

Fart wrote: »

Reading about reports that the police officer in the shoot out could have shot innocent bystanders also. Presumably accidental, of course.

Obviously a very busy area so its very possible, fair play to the construction worker who followed the shooter and told the police officers who were there.

fishy fishy

Fart wrote: »

Reading about reports that the police officer in the shoot out could have shot innocent bystanders also. Presumably accidental, of course.

are you serious?

are they not trained to shoot just the one person.

ScumLord

There where shootings at a Celine Dion concert when I was in Vegas years ago so this kind of stuff is happening all the time I'd say we only see the tip of the ice burg. We were told then the local cops tactic was to sit back and let them shoot each other and go in an clean up the mess when they run out of ammo.