Shooting at the Empire State Building: Can you stop a killer?
Every day, somewhere in the United States, someone is shot and killed—lots of someones, really. It’s not an uncommon thing. This summer, though, it seems to be happening with an eerie regularity. A new week, a new high-profile shooting incident. There may, truth be told, not be anything different about this summer, but it feels like there is. These things have a momentum. And today, another shooting. Another two people—one of them the gunman—dead, and nine more wounded. Another grisly scene.
But there’s something different about this shooting. It is, from what we know now—the details are still somewhat sketchy—not the work of someone who intended to kill multiple people, the way the gunmen in Aurora, Colorado, and Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., did. Eleven people were hit in midtown Manhattan today, but it appears that the shooter—the fifty-eight-year-old Jeffrey Johnson—may have only shot one of them. The rest, it seems, may have been shot by the two police officers trying to bring Johnson down