The gunman who opened fire during a Christmas concert at a landmark New York City cathedral has been identified by local media reports as a 52-year-old Bronx man with a criminal history that allegedly includes a murder attempt.
The gunman, identified by the New York Post as Luis Velazquez, was fatally shot by police on the steps of the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan.
Police would not immediately confirm the shooter’s identity to Fox News. Velazquez has a criminal history that includes an attempted murder charge from 1990 in the Upper West Side, and two other charges from 1989, for assault and drugs, law.
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