Friday, August 24, 2012

6. Eleven People Shot at Empire State Building

This morning on the sidewalks in midtown Manhattan, was full of people going to work and many tourists coming to visit one of the world's most famous buildings when a 58 year old man wearing a suit and carrying a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun when he made the move when he saw  Steven Ercolino, a sales executive at the company who was on his way to work. Mr Johnson the 58 old year man was a office rival of Mr. Erconio’s who the police said held Mr. Ercolino responsible for the loss of his job, which gave him to reason to fire the handgun. after shooting Mr. Erconio , Mr johnson calmly put his gun down and tries to blend into the crowd when the police officers at the fifth avenue were alerted by the construction workers about the shooting . When the police officers confronted with Mr.Johnson they opened fire and about 16 rounds Mr johnson was killed and 9 bystanders were wounded all by the police bullets. Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Ercolino,  had a long history of hate. They had scuffled in an elevator in April 2011, after Mr. Johnson lost his job at the company and took their grievance to the Midtown South police station, arriving within 15 minutes of each other, Mr. Browne said. He said that Mr. Johnson claimed Mr. Ercolino had threatened him and that Mr. Ercolino claimed Mr. Johnson had threatened him. a eye witness even said that while he tried to help Mr.Ercolino without know he had got shot said,  “A guy with a briefcase just came and just stood right over him and just kept shooting him — boom, boom, boom,” and “He looked right at me,” he said, but never turned the gun on him. “He wanted every bullet for that guy.”

The Authors purpose for the article is to inform what of the greatest events that happened in one of  the busiest place of this world and informing people of the latest news, the author explains the whole reasoning behind this action performed by Mr.Johnson . informs us where it happened and when . This author keeps us updated .

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