A person stalked by a Manhattan workplace tower firing a rifle on Monday, killing 4 individuals together with a New York Metropolis police officer, and wounding a fifth earlier than taking his personal life, officers mentioned. The capturing happened at a skyscraper that’s house to the headquarters of each the Nationwide Soccer League and Blackstone, one of many world’s largest funding corporations, amongst different tenants.
Investigators imagine that he was making an attempt to focus on the NFL headquarters however took the unsuitable elevator, Mayor Eric Adams mentioned Tuesday. A rambling observe discovered on his physique urged he had a grievance in opposition to the NFL over an unsubstantiated declare that he suffered from persistent traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative mind illness that has been linked to concussions and different repeated head trauma widespread involved sports activities like soccer.
President Donald Trump says he’s been briefed on the lethal capturing and “my coronary heart” is with the households of the 4 individuals killed. In a publish on his social media web site, Trump mentioned he trusts that regulation enforcement will “unravel why this crazed lunatic dedicated such a mindless act of violence.”
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Flags lowered to half-staff in NYC to honor capturing victims, mayor says
In a publish on social media, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned he has ordered all flags on metropolis buildings to be lowered to half-staff till additional discover to honor the slain officer and the opposite capturing victims.
NFL commissioner says an worker stays hospitalized in secure situation
Roger Goodell mentioned in a memo to workers Tuesday that “all of our workers are in any other case protected and accounted for,” following the capturing on the league’s headquarters in Manhattan.
Goodell praised the swift regulation enforcement response and honored the NYPD officer who was killed within the assault.
Staff in New York have been instructed to work remotely Tuesday or take the day without work, he mentioned, and extra safety shall be in place.
“Each considered one of you is a valued member of the NFL household. We’ll get by this collectively,” Goodell mentioned.
Adams says gunman left few clues
Adams mentioned one problem of the investigation has been that Tamura solely arrived in New York shortly earlier than the capturing, leaving few clues within the space.
“We’re going to talk with federal and state companions in Las Vegas to drill down on this as a lot as doable together with taking a look at his social media pages, something that he might have in his house, in order that we are able to proceed to piece this investigation collectively,” Adams mentioned.
The mayor mentioned it’s additionally a problem for regulation enforcement, “coping with those that come from areas with lax gun legal guidelines that enable people to have these high-powered weapons into cities like New York which have sturdy gun legal guidelines.”
Assertion from Blackstone on worker who was killed within the capturing
Blackstone on Tuesday mentioned an worker, Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director, was amongst these killed within the capturing.
“Phrases can’t categorical the devastation we really feel,” the agency mentioned in an announcement. “Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone household and shall be sorely missed. She was sensible, passionate, heat, beneficiant, and deeply revered inside our agency and past.”
LePatner was Blackstone’s international head of core+ actual property and chief government officer of Blackstone Actual Property Earnings Belief, in accordance with the agency’s web site. She spent greater than a decade at Goldman Sachs earlier than becoming a member of Blackstone in 2014.
A 2003 Yale graduate, LePatner served on the boards of a number of organizations, together with The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, Blackstone mentioned.
Trump says he’s been briefed on lethal NYC capturing, says his coronary heart is with the households of the 4 individuals killed
In a publish on his social media web site, Trump mentioned he trusts that regulation enforcement will “unravel why this crazed lunatic dedicated such a mindless act of violence.”
Trump, who’s presently in Scotland, mentioned “my coronary heart” is with the households of those that have been killed at a Manhattan workplace constructing, together with a New York Metropolis police officer.
The gunman was focusing on NFL headquarters, mayor says
Investigators imagine Shane Tamura was making an attempt to get to the NFL places of work after capturing a number of individuals within the constructing’s foyer however by chance entered the unsuitable set of elevator banks, Adams mentioned in interviews on Tuesday.
Police mentioned Tamura had a historical past of psychological sickness, and a rambling observe discovered on his physique urged he had a grievance in opposition to the NFL over an unsubstantiated declare that he suffered from persistent traumatic encephalopathy. He had performed soccer in highschool in California almost twenty years in the past.
The observe claimed he had been affected by CTE — the degenerative mind illness that has been linked to concussions and different repeated head trauma widespread involved sports activities like soccer — and mentioned his mind ought to be studied after he died, an individual conversant in the matter informed The Related Press.
It additionally particularly referenced the Nationwide Soccer League, the particular person mentioned.
A motive has not been decided however investigators have been trying into, based mostly on the observe, whether or not he would possibly’ve particularly focused the constructing as a result of it’s house to the NFL’s headquarters.
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Witnesses mentioned they heard ‘fast fireplace’
Nekeisha Lewis was consuming dinner with associates on the plaza when she heard gunfire.
“It felt prefer it was a fast two pictures after which it was fast fireplace,” she informed The Related Press.
Home windows shattered and a person ran from the constructing saying, “Assist, assist. I’m shot.” Lewis mentioned.
Jessica Chen informed ABC Information she was watching a presentation with dozens of different individuals on the second flooring when she “heard a number of pictures go off in fast succession from the primary flooring.”
She and others ran right into a convention room and barricaded tables in opposition to the door.
“We have been actually actually, actually scared,” she mentioned, including that she texted her dad and mom to inform them that she loves them.
Some finance staff at an workplace constructing down the block have been selecting up dinner at a nook eatery after they heard a loud noise and noticed individuals working.
“It was like a crowd panic,” mentioned Anna Smith, who joined the employees pouring again into the finance workplace constructing. They remained there for about two hours earlier than being informed they might depart.
Adams mentioned officers are nonetheless ‘unraveling’ what happened
Officers discovered a rifle case, a revolver, magazines and ammunition in Tamura’s automobile, Tisch mentioned. In addition they discovered remedy that belonged to Tamura, she mentioned.
She mentioned an preliminary investigation reveals his automobile traveled throughout the nation, passing by Colorado on July 26, then Nebraska and Iowa on July 27. The automobile was in Columbia, New Jersey, as not too long ago as 4:24 p.m. Monday. He drove into New York Metropolis shortly thereafter, she mentioned.
Rudin is among the largest privately owned actual property corporations in New York Metropolis. The corporate dates again to 1925 and remains to be managed by members of the Rudin household.
Tisch mentioned there have been no indications up to now that Tamura had prior connections to the actual property trade or to the town.
Nobody answered the door on the deal with listed for Tamura in Las Vegas.
What to know in regards to the capturing
A person stalked by a Manhattan workplace tower firing a rifle Monday, killing 4 individuals, together with a New York Metropolis police officer, and wounding a fifth earlier than taking his personal life, officers mentioned.
The gunman, recognized by authorities as Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, had a ‘documented psychological well being historical past,’ in accordance with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, however his motive was nonetheless unknown.
“We’re working to know why he focused this specific location,” Tisch mentioned.
Surveillance video confirmed the person exiting a double-parked BMW simply earlier than 6:30 p.m. carrying an M4 rifle, then marching throughout a public plaza into the constructing. Then, he began firing, Tisch mentioned, killing a police officer working a company safety element after which hitting a girl who tried to take cowl as he sprayed the foyer with gunfire.
The person then made his solution to the elevator financial institution and shot a guard at a safety desk and shot one other man within the foyer, the commissioner mentioned.
The person took the elevator to the thirty third flooring places of work of the corporate that owned the constructing, Rudin Administration, and shot and killed one particular person on that flooring. The person then shot himself, the commissioner mentioned. The constructing, 345 Park Avenue, additionally holds places of work of the monetary providers agency KPMG.
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