Two people are dead following a shooting at a Home Depot store in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, police say.

A spokeswoman for the NYPD told Yahoo News that both victims were male employees, and that an investigation was ongoing.

According to the Daily News, the gunman, 31, shot the victim, 38, before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide. An eyewitness told MSNBC that the shooter and victim knew each other.







Police investigate a shooting inside a Manhattan Home Depot. (Instagram/Marisa Cimarron)



At least one person was seen taken away from the store on a stretcher.









A victim is taken away via stretcher from Home Depot. (Instagram/Marisa Cimarron)



The shooting happened around 2:45 p.m., when customers and staffers were seen flooding out of the store onto 23rd Street.









Everyone running down 23rd st saying there's been a shooting. — Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 25, 2015

Crazy, came out of the subway and there were just hundreds of people running away from something. — Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 25, 2015

Am locked up in the store next door, Home Depot staffer is in here in tears calling her husband. Pretty crazy scene. — Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 25, 2015

View of the scene outside the Manhattan Home Depot where a shooting has reportedly taken place http://t.co/NmH2uvYDJc pic.twitter.com/PLNhEJ7Mct — Jim Dalrymple II (@JimDalrympleII) January 25, 2015



According to one witness, the shooter opened fire near the cash registers on the second floor.









Shooting @HomeDepot on 23rd between 5th and 6th in Manhattan. Shooter opened fire in cash register area on second floor. — Anna Buchbauer (@annabuchs) January 25, 2015



Witnesses say the midtown Home Depot was busier than usual Sunday as city residents stocked up ahead of the blizzard forecast for Monday.

