 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] shooting a dead gunman seems like overkill... - A gunman opened fire on the front steps of St. John the Divine Cathedral in Harlem during a Christmas show with singing carolers around 3.45pm
- He was reportedly 'firing into the air' and at police officers
- About 400 people had attended the event, no one was injured in the shooting
- The gunman was shot by police doing security for the event, hospitalized and died from his wounds, NYPD tells DailyMail.com
- City councilman Mark D. Levine said the man appeared to be mentally ill
- He said the man climbed the church's scaffolding shouting that he wanted to be killed and fired 'indiscriminately in the air'
- Cops recovered two semiautomatic guns from the suspect
- They also recovered a backpack that contained a full can of gasoline, rope, wire, multiple knives, a Bible and tape
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