Shooting at Empire State Building

Numbered tags mark evidence in the street at the scene of Friday morning’s shooting near the Empire State Building. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

Aug. 24, 2012 8:16 AM PT

Authorities say a gunman shot and killed a former co-worker and was then killed himself by police in a gunfight that left nine other people injured outside the Empire State Building in New York City.Read more

The body of the man shot to death by a former co-worker outside the Empire State Building is wheeled to a medical examiner’s van. (Andrew Kelly / Getty Images)

Crime scene technicians work around a covered body on 5th Avenue after the shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday. (Louis Lanzano / Associated Press)

Bystanders look on from behind a police line on Fifth Avenue after the shooting. (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)

A shooting victim lies covered on the sidewalk on West 33rd Street after a gunman opened fire near the Empire State Building in New York. (Andrew Kelly / Getty Images)

Police surround a sheet-covered body on a 5th Avenue sidewalk after a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building. (Louis Lanzano / Associated Press)