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Multiple people have been shot outside of the Empire State Building, according to reports.

FDNY has confirmed to Business Insider that 11 people have been shot or injured. Of those 11, five have minor injuries and four have non-urgent injuries.

Two, including the gunman, are dead.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference a man who had been fired from his job about a year began shooting near the Empire State Building.?

"This is a terrible tragedy," Bloomberg said, adding that a number of civilians helped police contain the situation.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in front of 10 West 33rd Street "trapped and killed" the suspect.

Kelley identified the shooter as Jeffrey Johnson. Following the shooting, he opened fire on NYPD officers and was then killed.

Johnson worked as a designer of women's accessories for Hazan Imports.

Bloomberg said he doesn't believe Johnson has a criminal record but the investigation is still in its early stages.

Johnson was 53 at the time of the shooting. Two women and seven men were injured in the shooting.

Police on their regular patrol of the Empire State Building followed Johnson after the shooting. A construction worker in the area also followed Johnson.

"He did what he should have done," Bloomberg said of the construct worker.

Bloomberg said he believes only one weapon was used in the incident.

You can watch the press conference live, courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg's YouTube channel.

The shooting was allegedly the result of a fight between coworkers, The New York Post reported.

NY Scanner, an unofficial Twitter account that reports on crimes in the city, is tweeting the suspect was fired from his job some time prior to the shooting.

The gunman tried to enter the building Friday morning but was turned away by security guards, NBC New York reported.

"He then waited for his boss outside the building, apparerently to target the boss in a revenge attack," sources told NBC New York, adding that the gunman and the boss had been "having problems for several weeks."

Victims have been taken to Bellevue and Cornell hospitals. Seven victims have been taken to Bellevue and three were taken to Cornell.

Watch: Empire State Building Shooting Report

Anika Basu, 23, was on the M34 bus and stopped at a stoplight in front of the Empire State Building when gunfire erupted this morning.

"We all heard like a ton of gunshots go off and looked to the left," she exclusively told Business Insider.

Basu said she saw three people fall on the sidewalk on the side of the building. She didn't see the shooter.

"There was three people down, there was mass chaos," she said, adding that Fifth Avenue is "completely out of control."

Of those three victims, Basu said one was one of the men who sells tourists passes to go to the top of the building.

"We didn't see the shooter, we didn't see anyone, we just saw the victims," she said.

Twitter user @mr_mookie has tweeted a picture of one of the victims. Warning, it's graphic.

Basu eventually got off the bus and walked out of the area, saying she was nervous she might also get shot.

Business Insider's Julia LaRoche is on the scene. She has tweeted this picture of the bystander who was shot. Warning, it's graphic.

A doorman told LaRoche the bystander who was killed was a "really nice" person who always said hello. He worked in the area.

Construction worker Chris Ogden, 23, who was working on a scaffold on the building, told the New York Daily News the gunman entered the building wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase before opening fire.

?He shot the guy in the head,? Ogden told the Daily News. ?The guy went down. He took a second shot when he was down.?

The shooter then "?walked down the block, like nothing was happening, real casual. We were screaming from the top, ?It?s the guy in the grey suit!?? Ogden told the Daily News.

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Aliyah Imam told Fox 5 News that a woman standing next to her fell the ground outside the Empire State Building.

The gunman was "shooting indiscriminately at people," Imam said (via CBS News.)

An eyewitness told WNBC that people were shot in "two different locations on two different blocks of Fifth Avenue near Empire State Building," Keys tweeted.

An eyewitness tweeted this picture of FDNY responding to the scene.

The Empire State Building is one of the most famous skyscrapers in the world, and one of New York City's best-known tourist attractions. Each year, about 4 million people visit the building's two observation decks. At more than 1,453 feet tall, the landmark building reaches more than a quarter-mile into the sky.

Additional reporting by Michael Kelley, Eric Platt, and Julia LaRoche.

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