Man commits suicide after shooting two dead

A former FBI agent-turned-insurance executive yesterday shot two colleagues before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide attack.

The vice president at health insurance giant Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield called two co-workers into the company’s office close to New York’s Times Square early this morning where he shot them. The gunman, a former agent at the FBI in New Jersey who was working in the company’s fraud unit, then killed himself.

A motive for the attack was not immediately clear. The victims were believed to be a man and a woman.

A spokesman from the New York Police Department said: “We’re not looking for anybody.”

Richard Restrepo, an electrician who works in the building, said a friend found the bodies after arriving at work early this morning.

“He saw blood on the floor. He followed the drops of blood into the office ... where he saw a lady on the floor with a gunshot in the back of her head and two guys in the chair just shot - one in the face, one in the head.”

Jennifer Montgomery, who worked in the building said: “I’m concerned about security now. It just shows you anything can happen anywhere.