An annual vigil honored the New Yorkers who died on the streets and in shelters while highlighting the lethal impact of chronic homelessness. “We should be clear that these outcomes are the result of public policy choices we make in the United States,” said one of the organizers.
Cathedral Shooting in Manhattan: What We Know About the Gunman
Luis Vasquez grew up in the Manhattan neighborhood where he opened fire as an outdoor carol service ended. The police fatally shot him.
Police surround Luis Vasquez, 52, on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine after he was felled by an officer’s bullet.Credit.Jeenah Moon/Reuters
Published Dec. 15, 2020Updated Dec. 16, 2020
A holiday concert on the steps of a Manhattan church was intended to be a gift to the neighborhood at the end of a year that has taken a toll on the city.
But festivity turned to terror on Sunday soon after the musicians played their last notes, when a suicidal man with pistols in both hands climbed the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights with one arm raised.
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Police fatally shoot gunman at landmark NYC cathedral after outdoor Christmas concert
December 14, 2020 / 7:01 AM / CBS/AP
A man was fatally shot by police on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral Sunday after he began firing two semiautomatic handguns at the end of a Christmas choral concert, police said. The gunfire began just before 4 p.m. at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. A 45-minute concert held on the cathedral steps had just concluded and a crowd of what CBS New York says was about 200 people was drifting away when the gunman started shooting, sending people running down Amsterdam Avenue screaming and diving to the sidewalk.