New York Cathedral Shooter Had Been Given Immigration Relief New York Cathedral Shooter Had Been Given Immigration Relief The 'zombie' section 212(c) of the INA, and unanswered questions 52-year-old Dominican national with a green card, was killed by police after he discharged a weapon outside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan following a Christmas carol concert there. It was not his first encounter with the law, raising the question as to why he was in the United States — let alone New York — to begin with. The New York Times reports that the shooter came to this country in 1976 as an immigrant, and