Shootings At The Empire State Building

In New York City this morning, a women's apparel designer, who had been laid off last year from his job at Hazan Imports, shot and killed a former co-worker, and then died in a gun battle with police.  Nine other people (which was earlier reported to be eight) were wounded during the incident, which occured in a busy area in front of the Empire State Building.

Read the story at CNN (with video), the Washington Post (with a live blog), the Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, Yahoo News and the New York Times.  CBS News has this video of Mayor Bloomberg's subsequent press conference: