Eviction was Empire State Building gunman’s final straw: police source

The laid-off designer who executed a former co-worker outside the Empire State Building spent two years blaming his victim for his financial woes — but he finally snapped when he learned he was being evicted from his Upper East Side apartment, The Post has learned.

“This was the final straw that pushed him over the edge,” a police source said yesterday. “He was blaming the victim for being out of work, having no money and now having no apartment.”

Shooter Jeffrey Johnson — who served in the Coast Guard as a petty officer second class in the 1970s — brooded over his dismissal from Hazan Import at 10 W. 33rd St., where he worked for six years.

He was laid off simply because “business was bad,” a Hazan employee said.

But for Johnson, the blame rested on salesman Steven Ercolino, who the shooter thought was not doing enough to push the products he designed, a source said.

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