Two people killed in Empire State shooting: NY police source
File photograph of the Empire State Building taken on April 25, 2012. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters / August 24, 2012)
(Reuters) - Two people were killed and at least eight were wounded in a shooting outside the Empire State Building in New York City on Friday, according to a New York police source.
One of the dead was the shooter, the source said, adding that there was no apparent link to terrorism.
2 reported dead in shooting near Empire State Bldg
As many as 10 people have been injured in a shooting outside the Empire State Building in Manhattan, NBC News reports.The gunman, who was firing indiscriminately, is dead, the AP says.
Update at 10:23 a.m. ET:The New York Daily News quotes a construction worker, Chris Ogden, as saying he saw the gunman, who was carrying a brief case, open fire. "He shot the guy in the head," Ogden tells the newspaper. "The guy went down. He took a second shot when he was down."
Update at 10:14 a.m. ET: A witness tells CNN that the gunman ran after and shot a man in the head. An unarmed guard chased the gunman away, the witness says.
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Attempted child abduction in N.E. Atlanta
Atlanta police released this artist's sketch of a man wanted in connection with an attempted child abduction Wednesday evening in northeast Atlanta. Credit: Marla Lawson, GBIPolice put out an alert Thursday for a man driving a black pickup truck who allegedly tried to kidnap a 7-year-old girl from a street corner in northeast Atlanta.
The incident happened about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday at Parkway Drive N.E. and Angier Avenue N.E., police said.
The girl was walking on Parkway with two friends, ages 9 and 12, when a man in a pickup slowed down and asked the girls where they were going, police said. They ignored him and continued walking.
"The man exited his truck, grabbed the 7-year-old girl, covered her mouth so that she couldn't scream and began dragging her toward his truck," Atlanta police Officer John Chafee said in a news release.
"The other two girls grabbed the victim and attempted to pull her away from the suspect, who then released the girl and fled the scene in his vehicle," Chafee said.
The girls described the assailant as a black man, about 50 years old, bald, about 6 feet 1 inch tall and 200 pounds, police said. He was wearing a blue shirt, baggy shorts and red Converse All-Star shoes.
At least one person killed in in shooting near Empire State building amid morning rush
Details were sketchy, but police were involved in the gunfire on 34th St. and Fifth Ave. — alongside the the iconic midtown skyscraper
A suspect was shot and killed by police and four other people were wounded when gunfire erupted Friday morning outside the Empire State Building, cops said.
Details were sketchy, but the shooting started shortly after 9 a.m. on the crowded rush hour sidewalks outside the iconic midtown skyscraper.
A man wanted by police was fatally shot, while four other people were injured before the gunfire stopped. It was unclear if the wounded victims were linked to the dead suspect or innocent bystanders, police said.
The scene from a shooting near the Empire State Building during the Friday morning rush.
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