Updated On: 26 August, 2012 09:36 AM IST | | Agencies
A women's accessories designer, 58 year-old Jeffrey Johnson, who was made redundant last year shot his former boss ufffd the vice-president of Hazan Import Corp Steven Ercolino ufffd dead outside the Empire State Building yesterday
In the ensuing armed showdown with police, Johnson was killed and nine bystanders wounded, some by stray police bullets.
“People were yelling ‘Get down, get down’,” said witness Marc Engel. “It took about 15 seconds and a lot of pop, pop, pop, pop, one shot after the other.” Engel saw the wounded scattered along the footpath, including one person “dripping enough blood to leave a stream.”