So ambassador Melanne Verveer is founder of the seneca woman, and executive director of georgetown womens peace and security. In 2009 president obama appointed her as the first ever United States ambassador at large for global womens issues. She is cofounder of vital voices come an International Nonprofit that invest in emerging Women Leaders. Kim azzarelli is also a founder of the seneca women and is cofounder and chair of the cornell law schools Avon Global Center for women and justice. She is a legal corporate and Philanthropic Advisor and has held senior positions in Companies Including newsweek, babies, Goldman Sachs and avon. Moderating this evening we are very pleased and very excited to introduce jill abramson, lecture at harvard and former executive editor of the New York Times, and quite icon in journalism. She spent the last 17 years in the most senior editorial positions at the New York Times where she was the first woman to serve as Washington Bureau chief managing editor
the shooter is 53-year-old jeffrey johnson, a person fired from a local company here in new york city called hazan imports, a designer of women s apparel. the story itself is not in the empire state billing, but on the block, right somewhere 5th and 6th avenue, a bit outside of the garment district, but that s the part of new york city for apparel and fashion for clothing. they re saying he was let go for some company some time ago and approached a 41-year-old person on the street and shot this person in the head. they say they re not releasing the victim s name just yesterday until they notify the family, but this jeffrey johnson worked for hazan imports, used a semiautomatic weapon opening fire on the streets. a construction worker witnessed the murder take place, followed this jeffrey johnson character to the front of 5th avenue where
from. everything occurred outside, and it happened to be near the empire state building, but as far as we know, there was no connection to nobody going in our out. the company that he worked for is a local company, but not in the empire state building, is my understanding. last question, miss. yes, it s a .45 caliber pistol that has eight magazine holds eight. is that your question? we just don t know. it s much too early. what i want to do is assure everything it has nothing to do with terrorism, there is clearly a murder here and a murder victim. the police responded very quickly because they were on the scene, a post where we assign police officers in the normal course of protecting this city. there were a number of shots fired. the perpetrator clearly turned his gun on the police and tried
the tape clearly shows the guy has the gun out trying to kill the police officers. we just said, miss, he worked for a women s apparel company. it s still under investigation. we don t know. the details will change. later on day 1 pp will put it out. reporter: how long is this going it s going to take a while. we look for shell casings, look for witnesses, look at videos. police go through a time a honed checklist of looking for evidence without destroying anything and getting as many witnesses. if you saw something, call the police department, call 311, and they ll connect you with the appropriate people. one or two more, because we re going about the same things.