Jeffrey Johnson fatally shot a former co-worker outside of the Empire State Building in New York on Friday, but why? According to the Associated Press [5], police say that the victim, Steve Ercolino, an apparel company vice president, and his killer, a T-shirt designer, had been involved in a tense office relationship.
Police investigating Johnson's killing of Ercolino were eyeing bad blood between them from when they worked together at Hazan Import, a garment district business where Ercolino was a vice president of sales.
Johnson and Ercolino had traded harassment accusations when they worked together, police said, and when Johnson was laid off from the company a year ago he blamed Ercolino, saying he hadn't aggressively marketed his new T-shirt line ...
A neighbor who often saw Johnson, 58, said he was always alone.
"I always felt bad," said Gisela Casella, who lived a few floors above Johnson in a modest apartment building on the Upper East Side. "I said, `Doesn't he have a girlfriend?' I never saw him with anybody."
Read more at the Associated Press [5].
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