Following a mass shooting in Manhattan, Fox News senior national correspondent Kevin Corke appeared on “Hannity” Monday to describe how his sense of safety in New York City felt vastly different under former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
One police officer and at least four others were killed Monday evening after a gunman entered a 44-story Midtown skyscraper that houses Blackstone and the NFL headquarters. While discussing Corke’s photos showing victims barricading themselves inside after alerts of the shooter, both he and host Sean Hannity applauded the response efforts.
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“Kevin, I looked at those barricades. First of all, kudos, credit to the people that were thinking on their feet. I mean, look at everything they threw against the wall there. Pretty much everything that was in the office. Obviously, they heard gunshots. Obviously, they wanted to protect themselves. Obviously, they were thinking fast on their feet. I give them a lot of credit,” Hannity said.
“Yeah, I do too, Sean,” Corke said. “And especially when you think about a circumstance that could happen to each and every one of us, unfortunately, you just don’t know how you might react in the moment. And as you mentioned, I just received exclusively here, to Fox, another couple of pictures of folks again, inside the office building on [the] 33rd floor, just trying to do everything and anything they could do. We’re talking couches and furniture and filing cabinets. Again, just to try to keep out the shooter.”
The alleged gunman was seen walking into the building with a rifle shortly before opening fire around 6:30 p.m. Initial reports indicated several people were wounded before the gunman took his own life.
After officials arrived on the scene, the New York Police Department issued a post on X saying the situation was contained. Corke went on to describe how he remembers “walking around late night and never” feeling a “great sense of danger” during Giuliani’s leadership.
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“I just want to say this, I’ve been in New York an awful long time. I love the city, lived in Murray Hill, as you know. I used to remember walking around late night and never really feeling a great sense of danger. Of course, this was back in the Giuliani days. But now when I come to the city, it does not feel the same way,” Corke said.
“And so when you see a story like this, and, again, this is not political. This is sort of capturing the sense of what’s happening in the city right now. It really does fray already frayed nerves when you see a story like this. Now we’re going to learn a lot more hopefully here very shortly about the shooter and possible motivations we may learn in the days and weeks ahead,” Corke said. “But again, the pictures tonight, Sean, are harrowing.”
New York officials held a press conference Monday evening saying that the police officer killed had been a four-year veteran. One male and two females were also killed, with another person in serious condition.
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