VOA标准英语2012--Empire State Building Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 9 Wounded
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Empire State Building Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 9 Wounded
New York City Police Commissioner 1 Ray Kelly identified the gunman in the Friday morning attack as Jeffrey Johnson, a 58-year-old resident of Manhattan. Kelly says Johnson designed women’s accessories at Hazan Imports, until he was laid off last year when the company cut staff.
“In a dispute with one of the former employees of Hazan in front of the building, Johnson produced a pistol and fired at close range, striking his 41-year-old victim in the head,” said Kelly.
The police commissioner said a construction worker witnessed the deadly shooting and alerted two nearby police officers. Police confronted Johnson and shot him dead after he pulled out his gun.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked city residents to pray for victims of the shooting.
“New York City as you know is the safest big city in the country and we are on pace to have a record low number of murders this year, but we are not immune to the national problem of gun violence," said Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has frequently called for tighter national gun laws in his capacity as mayor and is the co-chairman of a national coalition 2 of city leaders, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Police were investigating how nine other people were wounded in the case, and raised the possibility that some might have been injured by police gunfire. Bloomberg said all nine were expected to survive.
The area around the Empire State Building, usually teeming 3 with tourists and office workers, was cordoned 4 off by police investigators 5 as a crime scene.
The shooting comes just weeks after a gunman killed six Sikh worshippers at a temple in the state of Wisconsin, and after a gunman killed 12 people attending a movie in the state of Colorado.
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
- The rain was teeming down. 大雨倾盆而下。
- the teeming streets of the city 熙熙攘攘的城市街道
- Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was defused. 警方封锁了这个地区直到炸弹被拆除为止。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》