Emergency personnel work to keep one of the victims alive as they arrive at New York University Downtown Hospital.
NEW YORK, July 23 — A man pulled a gun and began firing Wednesday from a balcony in the City Council chambers of New York City Hall, killing a council member before being fatally shot by a plainclothes officer, police said.
CITY OFFICIALS told NBC News that the council member, James E. Davis, 41, of Brooklyn, died of his wounds at New York University Downtown hospital.
NBC affiliate WNBC-TV of New York, citing police sources, said a plainclothes officer shot the gunman on the balcony. He died later at the same hospital.
The gunman was sitting in the balcony near Davis when he suddenly opened fire, striking the council member, police sources told The Associated Press. The security officer, who was on the floor of the chamber, shot up at the gunman, striking him five times, the sources said.
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