New York ( CNN ) Shoppers crowded into a Manhattan Home Depot store to prepare for an anticipated snowstorm streamed into the streets Sunday afternoon after an employee shot a store manager and then himself , according to NYPD spokesman Sgt . Brendan Ryan . The 38-year-old manager , who was shot in an aisle of the store , was transported to Bellevue Hospital where he was later pronounced dead , Ryan said . The shooting happened in a store at 40 West 23rd Street , in the Flatiron section of Manhattan , police said . The shooter , a 31-year-old male worker at the store , was not scheduled to work when he came in , Ryan said . The shooter was pronounced dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound , according to the NYPD . Police recovered a .38-caliber revolver at the scene , Ryan said . Police did not speculate on a motive for the shooting , noting that the incident is still under investigation . CNN 's Shimon Prokupecz contributed to this report .
The store was packed with people preparing for the snowstorm about to hit New England . The shooter killed himself after shooting and killing a store manager , police said .