The flag of the City of New York flies at half staff as police guard the door to New York's City Hall on the morning of July 24, 2003. The day before, an aspiring politician bypassed security and fatally shot City Councilman James Davis.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, arrives at City Hall by subway with press secretary Ed Skyler July 24, 2003.
Mayor Bloomberg climbs the steps at City Hall July 24, 2003.
Mayor Bloomberg walks through the metal detector as he arrives at City Hall July 24, 2003. Bloomberg is ordering metal-detector checks for everyone entering the building, including elected officials. Police say Davis' killer got past security because he knew Davis and walked inside with him. Until now, officials could by-pass metal detectors. The gunman Othniel Askew, 31, was killed by a security guard inside the chamber.
Police officers direct pedestrians on Broadway in front of City Hall away from the building after a shooting inside the City Hall council member chambers July 23, 2003, in New York.
A police officer checks the subway cars as service resumed at the City Hall station of the Lexington Ave. line after a shooting inside the City Hall council member chambers July 23, 2003, in New York.
An unidentified woman cries outside New York City Hall after City Council member James Davis was shot and killed during a hearing inside City Council chambers July 23, 2003.
Police surround City Hall in New York after the shooting July 23, 2003.
Emergency service personnel evacuate people from City Hall after the shooting inside the city council chambers.
Dawn Jones, Chairperson of Education and Libraries in Manhattan, is comforted by Wali Amin Muhammad, both friends of James Davis, as they leave the hospital where Davis was taken after being shot July 23, 2003.
Emergency Service Unit police officers leave City Hall after the shooting.
Police stand guard outside New York City Hall after two people were shot inside July 23, 2003.
Thelma Davis, wearing a shirt with a picture of her son, James Davis, enters Brown Memorial Baptist Church in the New York borough of Brooklyn. A memorial service was held for city councilman Davis Wednesday evening.
New York City Councilman James Davis is seen marching in a protest in Brooklyn against the overturning of police convictions in the Abner Louima trial, March 3, 2002. Brooklyn Councilman Davis, a former police officer, was killed July 23, 2003, when a gunman opened fire during a meeting inside City Council chambers.
Heavily armed police walk in front of New York City Hall after two people were shot inside, July 23, 2003. James Davis, a City Council member who crusaded against violence, was gunned down during a routine meeting, and a plainclothes police officer in turn shot and killed the assailant on a second-floor balcony inside City Hall, police sources said.
Security is tightened around New York's City Hall after a gunman opened fire during a meeting inside City Council chambers, killing a city councilman who has crusaded against urban violence, July 23, 2003 in New York.
A woman is carried down New York City Hall steps as police stand guard.
Heavily armed police walk in front of New York's City Hall.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, right, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, second from right, exit City Hall in New York after shooting erupted.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly hold a press conference.