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Images: NY gunman kills 2 near Empire State Building

Aug 24, 2012   (4 images)

A recently fired store worker shot a former colleague to death on Friday morning outside New York's iconic Empire State Building and then randomly opened fired on people nearby, two law enforcement officials said. Police said eight others were hit by gunfire, but those injuries were not believed to be life threatening.Mayor Bloomberg confirms this was a work place related shooting. “Some victims, not in serious condition, may have been shot by cops accidentally,” he says.

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A body lies on the sidewalk near the Empire State Building after a shooting, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. AP

 

This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as mr_mookie, an eyewitness at the scene, shows a victim of a shooting being tended to by pedestrians outside the Empire State Building in New York on Frida. AP

 

Police surround a sheet covered body on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk as they investigate a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. AP

 

Police lean over a sheet covered body on Fifth Avenue as they investigate a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, on Friday, in New York. AP