NYC shootings strike a city that prizes tourism - Newsday

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Originally published: August 25, 2012 2:24 PM
Updated: August 25, 2012 2:33 PM
By The Associated Press  JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press)
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Photo credit: AP | In this sequence of images taken from a surveillance video camera and released by the New York City Police Department, police officers approach Jeffrey Johnson, after he shot his former colleague Steven Ercolino, near the Empire State Building in New York, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Johnson, upper left in frames, was shot and killed by police as bystanders fled. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)
(AP) -- New York officials proudly tout the Big Apple as the safest big city in America. But blasts of gunfire in front of crowds near some of the city's best-known destinations this month painted a picture at odds with its tame, tourist friendly image.
Police confronted a knife-wielding man in Times Square and then shot him to death a few blocks away Aug. 11 as onlookers followed along and...
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