us BREAKING: Several people shot outside Empire State Building, NYC

[Roger H. Veteran]

http://twitter.com/#...e%20Building%22

Not much news yet:

NEW YORK ? New York City officials say several people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead.

City police say three or four civilians have been wounded in the Friday morning shooting and that the shooter is dead.

A fire department spokesman says it received a call about the shooting just after at 9 a.m. Friday and that emergency units were on the scene within minutes.

The spokesman had no information about how many people were wounded or their conditions.

The shooting occurred at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

http://www.huffingto...lding-shooting/

http://usnews.nbcnew...e-building?lite

Gunman now said to be dead!

[The_Decimator]

http://www.cnn.com/2...tate/index.html

EDIT: Sorry, I looked & didn't find a thread that was made before mine, but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for merging, mods!

Edited August 24, 2012 by MASTER260
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[FlintyV]

Additional source: http://www.guardian....g-live-coverage

[threetonesun]

At this point, the motive and weapon are unknown.

I'm guessing gun.

[Roger H. Veteran]

10 people now being said on the news in NYC. Friend watching

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Can we for one not turn this thread into a debate about gun control? Thank you.

[the better twin]

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Sad to hear. Hope those injured pull through.

Edited August 24, 2012 by SHoTTa35
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[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Seems to be a heck of a lot of this going on at the minute :( Very sad :(

[Detection]

BBC News saying 4 dead including the gunman

[Roger H. Veteran]

Thread cleaned and warnings issued, let's keep the gun control topics out of this one please, plenty more other topics to go on about that.

[Bryan R.]

An environment of bad economy and high unemployment will always see increased incidents like this. Very sad indeed.

Thread cleaned and warnings issued, let's keep the gun control topics out of this one please, plenty more other topics to go on about that.

Thankfully there's an entire thread for that stuff now (Y)

[tsupersonic]

:( sad day

[Detection]

They think the guy was maybe a security guard fired the day before

[CG-88]

Aww man, this is terrible news :( and yeah as a few other people have said there is alot of this at the moment, or well alot publicised.

[Bryan R.]

They think the guy was maybe a security guard fired the day before

This would back my aforementioned belief. Until it's confirmed, it's still a bit early.

[shockz]

Another week another crazed gunman. What is going on lately? :/

[t_r_nelson]

WTF? People are snapping left and right.

[torrentthief]

I'm guessing that all the security cameras happened to magically stopped working like with nearly all other mass shootings that happen.

[Roger H. Veteran]

NBCnews.com saying he's a disgruntled employee that was fired yesterday.

[Bryan R.]

NBCnews.com saying he's a disgruntled employee that was fired yesterday.

It's really sad that I can't even take the major news outlets seriously anymore. I'll wait a bit more to see if anyone debunks this.

[snipped]

A better economy.

Edited August 26, 2012 by John S.

[drazgoosh]

So many different reports on number wounded, killed, shot at, etc.

[FlintyV]

Police news conference any minute now.

[Mohitster]

America or no America....it is really sad that such incidents are happening with too much frequency these days.... :(

[Rippleman]

damn i need my island and soon!

[FlintyV]

Construction worker Chris Ogden was working on a scaffold above the building?s 33rd St. entrance when he watched in disbelief as the gunman ? in a suit and carrying a briefcase ? opened fire.

?He shot the guy in the head,? said Ogden, 23. ?The guy went down. He took a second shot when he was down.?

The well-dressed shooter then ?walked down the block, like nothing was happening, real casual,? Ogden said. ?We were screaming from the top, ?It?s the guy in the grey suit!??