Photographer Jesse Chan-Norris caught the aftermath of an attempted murder in Manhattan this morning

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At 5:40am I was jolted out of sleep by a noise. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. I raced outside, I looked down, I saw the black car with its door open. I saw another car next to it. I saw the body in the middle of the street. I stood. I gawked. I went back inside. I put on clothes. I heard the sirens. I went back outside. I gawked. I went back inside. I got my camera. I went back outside. I took some photos. I went back inside. I went back outside. I watched the EMTs put the body on the stretcher. I went back inside. I heard the ambulances leave. I went back outside. The street was quiet except for two police cars, their lights on in the middle of the street.

I went back inside.

Posted February 16, 2009