Not a Mystery Why the White Empire State Shooter Wasn't Stopped & Frisked

Newsday

The laid-off clothing designer who shot his former colleague to death outside the Empire State Building last week told his landlord he was leaving -- and not returning, police said Thursday.

Jeffrey Johnson left his keys and said he wouldn't be back after Friday, the day his former co-worker Steven Ercolino was fatally shot. Police shot and killed Johnson when he pointed a gun at them after killing Ercolino and slipping into the busy rush hour crowd on Fifth Avenue. Nine bystanders were wounded by police gunfire, ricochets and fragments. They suffered nonlife-threatening gunshot and graze wounds.