empire state building shooting
Impending Eviction May Have Caused Empire State Building Shooter to Snap
Friday's shooting outside the Empire State Building has been mostly attributed to shooter Jeffrey Johnson's longstanding grudge against former co-worker Steven Ercolino. This morning, the New York Post shed some additional light on the situation: Johnson — who had been without work for two years after being laid off from Hazan Import — could no longer make rent on his Upper East Side one-bedroom and his landlord had threatened to force him out. "This was the final straw that pushed him over the edge," a police source told the paper. "He was blaming the victim for being out of work, having no money and now having no apartment."
[NYP]
