the Sunday Supplement: “Goings On Around Town"

                   the innocent bystanders:

there were 23 people

on the escalator going up

to procure certain goods

some of whom would soon become

innocent bystanders.

5 steps above them,

the target of the assassination plot,

below them, the assassin.

shots ring out.

6 of the now classified

as innocent bystanders are killed

along with the assassin's target.

the assassin is shot dead by the cops

in a shootout at the base of the escalator

along with 2 cops and 4 additional

innocent bystanders.

potential innocent bystanders

scurry for cover.

12 potential innocent bystanders

call 91l, others place calls to their kids

telling them: “Mommy loves you.”

one (1) innocent bystander

dies of a heart attack on the lower

platform during the turmoil (mass commotion)

which investigators would later determine 

had no direct link to the shootout and consequently

his name was eventually withdrawn from the list

of innocent bystanders.