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Jeffrey Johnson was all smiles on in the photo taken from his myspace page, but apparently an talk with his boss took him over the edge.
Johnson, 53, was shot dead on the sidewalk outside of the Empire State Building after he stalked the boss who fired him from his job shot him dead in the street. He then turned his gun on police officers, who returned fire.
In the ensuing gun battle Johnson was killed, but at least nine pedestrians were struck in the process, many by police gunfire.
Gruesome details + photos below…
The incident occurred at the intersection of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York.
According to the NYPost, Johnson had been fired about a year ago from Hazan Imports at 10 W. 33rd Street, around the corner from the scene.
Johnson followed his former boss, identified as 41-year-old Steve Ercolino, down the street and opened fire with a .45-caliber pistol at close range.
After fatally shooting Ercolino in the head, he walked down 33rd Street with the gun concealed and was confronted by a pair of construction workers who gave chase, said Kelly.
At that point, cops on anti-terror patrol drew their weapons on Johnson and he opened fire.
The cops fired back, cutting down the suspect and possibly hitting some of the nine innocent bystanders who were caught in the mayhem.
One of the victims, a woman from the Bronx, in her 20s, was on her way to Dunkin Donuts for her morning coffee when she heard the gunfire and realized she’d been shot.
“She saw blood and said ‘Who got shot?’ and then she looked down and it was her.
She never saw the gunman,” said her pal, Chris Collins, a 44-year-old lab tech at NYU. (READ MORE)
<Are times really that hard where people are willing to die over a JOB?!?
Wow, that’s pretty bold of the construction workers to confront the guy. This is sad. These days, if you make someone mad, you just never know what may happen. Times are hard for people and maybe the gunman felt he was fired unjustly.
I would never shoot someone over a job but i can imagine how Johnson felt to get this desperate. I lost my job a year ago and while unemployment helps, honey, everything is such a struggle now–and it has been so hard to get a new job. They say jobs are out there and people are hiring, yeah well, try to go for one of those said jobs…delays, red tapes and the hoops you gotta jump through are no joke. And you end up, like im for sure i will have to, taking a job that pays minimum wage just to scrape by after unemployment runs out. I can attest that half these jobs that I am still applying for and havent heard back from will pay me way less than unemployment dcoes.
Big momma, that is not a picture of Johnson’s MySpace . It is a pic of Ercolino’s Facebook . You might want to correct that.
Plus the 2nd paragraph has a few typos.
Just awful. Prayers for all.
Damn Shame
Uhm…the cops shot like 9 people in the process? How the hell do you shoot 9 innocent bystanders? And what happened to shoot to disarm?
This is a mess all the way around. You can’t even fire folks anymore.
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