Times Square Shooting

SLIDESHOW - Police officers guard a cordoned off area around the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square where a shooting took place, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009, in New York. — AP Photo

A roped off area surrounding the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square is guarded by police where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York. An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near a landmark hotel, police said.

Police officers inspect a Mac 10 machine gun and nearby magazine in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

A Mac 10 machine gun and nearby magazine are seen in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

A bullet hole is seen in a shattered window of a souvenir shop in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Pedestrians walk past a cordoned off section surrounding the Marriot Marquis Hotel, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Pedestrians walk past a cordoned-off section surrounding the Marriot Marquis hotel, where a shooting took place in the hotel's passenger drop-off area, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York. An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near a landmark hotel, police said.

Police officers inspect a Mac 10 machine gun and nearby magazine in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

A bullet hole is seen in a shattered window of a souvenir shop in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

A one block area of Times Square is cordoned off by police lines surrounding the Marriot Marquis Hotel where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Police officers walk through a cordoned off section surrounding New York's Marriot Marquis Hotel, where a shooting took place in the passenger drop-off area, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near the hotel, police said.

Police officers point toward an area within the Marriot Marquis Hotel, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Police officers guard a cordoned off area around the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Officers from the Crime Scene Unit inspect a bullet hole-ridden glass window in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

Crime Scene Unit officers stand over a Mac 10 machine gun and nearby magazine in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.

A bullet hole is seen in a shattered window of a gift shop in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square, where a shooting took place on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, in New York.