Shooting brings chaos to Empire State Building

 
By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Published: August 25, 2012   

NEW YORK — A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world’s best-known landmarks. Officers killed the gunman and at least nine others suffered minor wounds, likely all of them by stray police gunfire, authorities said.

photo - This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as mr_mookie shows shooting victim Robert Asika being tended to by pedestrians outside the Empire State Building. Asika was shot in the right arm. AP photo via Instagram
This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as mr_mookie shows shooting victim Robert Asika being tended to by pedestrians outside the Empire State Building. Asika was shot in the right arm. AP photo via Instagram

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The gunshots rang out on the Fifth Avenue side of the building about 9 a.m., when pedestrians on their way to work packed sidewalks and merchants were opening their shops.

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