Empire State shooter hit 5 times in head by police bullets - CNN.com
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- Two officers fired 16 rounds toward the shooter, police say
- Police bullets or fragments wounded nine pedestrians, New York's police commissioner says
- The slain co-worker apparently filed a prior complaint against the shooter, Jeffrey Johnson
- Johnson's family identified his body Saturday, official says
New York (CNN) — The gunman who killed a former co-worker on a Manhattan sidewalk Friday was shot five times in the head by police, the New York Medical Examiner's office said Sunday.
Two officers responding to the shooting fired 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Jeffrey Johnson, 58, died from the five bullets to his head, and also suffered "a graze wound to the chest, but nothing that would have killed him," said Ellen Borakove, the medical examiner's spokeswoman.
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Nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds in the hail of gunfire, all from shots fired by police, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Saturday.
Woman saw co-worker shot by her side 
Anderson interviews shooting witness Three passers-by sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, Kelly said.
One officer shot nine rounds and the other shot seven.
Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Johnson, who shot Ercolino with a .45-caliber pistol, was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol. It holds eight, Kelly said.
Johnson's family identified his body Saturday, Borakove said.
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CNN's Chris Kokenes contributed to this report.
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