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blood-stained. i overheard a conversation who told a police officer, a very worried employee of the building that the shooter had been killed and it was safe to go back inside the building. that said, gridlock how you can describe midtown manhattan right now. 5th avenue completely shut down between 34th street and 33rd street and the crosstown artery, 34th street also shut down. thousands of people in the street. many curious onlookers. many others people who can not get to their offices. the comercial establishments here because the street itself has been shut down. more importantly at the outset the empire state building is now allowing tenants back inside and a police officer told the employee that the shooter had been killed. bill: there are two pieces of information we re trying to confirm here, david lee. do us your best with the following. there was one report that suggested this man was firing indiscrimenantly. can you confirm that, a?
assistance probably also saved lives. new york city as you know is the safest big city in the country and we are on pace to have a record low number of murders this year, but we are not immune to the national problem of gun violence. let me turn it over to commissioner kelly. thank you mr. mayor. i want to stress that what we have is preliminary information and there is an ongoing investigation of course. at 9:03 this morning, in front of 10 west 33rd street a disgruntled former employee of a company at that address shot and killed a former coworker, striking him three times. the subject, jeffery johnson, age 53, then fled eastbound on west 33rd street to 5th avenue when he walked northbound along the curbline with a .45 caliber handgun secreted in a black bag that he had under his
of the morning rush-hour in an area packed with tourists, and ordinary new yorkers on their way to work. federal officials saying the attack is not related to terrorism but was some kind of a work-place dispute. joining us now with new information pat brosnan a former new york city police detective and the ceo of brosnan work consultants. a work-place shoot stph-g. we have shooting? we have a number of people with boots on the ground. this was actually on the 11th floor. what seems to have transpired is that a recently terminated individual went up and shot his boss in the face on the 11th floor at 10 west 33rd street. outside the building was one of you ll see them all the time, you ll see precincts
according to our source. he put it this way. appears he came back and , aú?@@.g fairly tragic situation here. we re talking about this occurred, looks like the initial crime scene, and again, it is murky, 10 west 33rd street. that is west of 5th avenue. and then there was a second crime scene and 34th and fifth. obviously multiple people were shot. we know at least two people are dead, a male in his 40s, apparently according to our sources was shot as well. jamie: charlie, we ll let you get back on the phone. meantime we re hearing from people on the ground and witnesses, not only a fox employee who spoke to us earlier but bill, you have more. bill: you can imagine. there are hundreds if not perhaps thousands of eyewitnesses to this scene at 9:00 in the morning. reported4x at peak that this intersection of new york city you could have as many as 10,000 people cross that sidewalk in just this part of the city.