the Sunday Supplement: “Goings On Around Town"

                   the innocent bystanders:

there were 23 people on the escalator

going up in order 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his name was withdrawn from the list of innocent bystanders.