NEW YORK (WABC) — Authorities say the gunman who opened fireplace in a Midtown Manhattan workplace constructing on Monday evening — killing 4 individuals and injuring a fifth — had a historical past of psychological sickness and should have been concentrating on the NFL.
Suspect Shane Tamura died by suicide after the mass capturing at 345 Park Avenue, which is house to NFL headquarters. Police sources informed ABC Information he had a three-page be aware in his pocket claiming he suffered from CTE.
Tamura, 27, performed highschool soccer in Los Angeles however didn’t play professionally; police have discovered no proof thus far that he suffered a traumatic mind harm or had CTE, sources mentioned. He has no recognized connection to the NFL.
On the finish of the capturing rampage, Tamura shot himself within the chest on the places of work of Rudin Administration, on the constructing’s thirty third ground, authorities mentioned.
Officers later discovered his handwritten suicide be aware.
“In that be aware Mr. Tamura claimed to be affected by CTE, presumably from taking part in highschool soccer, he additionally writes ‘examine my mind, I am sorry,'” mentioned New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
A second be aware was present in Las Vegas, the place Tamura lived, sources informed ABC Information, describing it, at the very least partly, as an apology to his mother and father.
VIGIL OFFERS COLLECTIVE PRAYER TO VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILES
A vigil was held Tuesday evening to pay tribute to the lives misplaced after a gunman went on a capturing rampage in an workplace constructing in Midtown Manhattan on Monday.
Flanked by funeral flowers, Bryant Park served as an outside, ecumenical worship service to hope for the victims, their households and the town.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who has been a pillar of power for the NYPD,attended the vigil and revealed that she misplaced not solely one in all her personal officers, but additionally a private buddy: 43-year-old Wesley LePatner,a profitable businesswoman and mom of two kids.
SUSPECT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN WRONG ELEVATOR
Tamura was seen on surveillance video carrying an extended rifle throughout the constructing’s plaza earlier than he entered the entrance doorways and instantly opened fireplace.
Mayor Eric Adams mentioned Tuesday morning that the suspect took the flawed elevator financial institution on to the thirty third ground, nevertheless it seems his intent was to go after the staff on the NFL.
“He, from our preliminary investigation, he took the flawed elevator financial institution as much as the NFL headquarters,” Adams mentioned. “As a substitute, it took him to Rudin Administration, and that’s the place he carried out extra shootings and took the lives of extra workers.”
The mayor referred to as it “eerie” to see surveillance video depicting the suspect permitting a lady to stroll out of the elevator, sparing her from being shot.
“He allowed her to stroll previous him with none motion in any respect. He simply shot one of many safety guards who was behind the desk,” Adams mentioned throughout an interview.
The founding father of Group 77, a workforce of safety and public security professionals, mentioned the safety at 345 Park Avenue.
“You would have the perfect safety measures in place, the perfect locking methods or safety, and that’ll be the day the door would not shut proper otherwise you journey or there was an influence outage,” mentioned Group 77 founder Brian Higgins mentioned. “So we are able to take each aspect doable, however there’s a component of luck or a better energy that can handle this occasion.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned the workplace will probably be closed by way of the top of subsequent week, August 8, and requested that workers based mostly within the New York workplace plan to work remotely till that point.
THE VICTIMS
4 individuals have been killed: an government at Blackstone who was a spouse and mother, a police officer who was a dad of two with a 3rd on the way in which, a safety officer and an worker at Rudin Administration.
NYPD Officer Didarul Islam was a 36-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant who joined the NYPD 4 years in the past. His spouse is at present eight-months pregnant.
New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned he made the last word sacrifice and and “he died as he lived — a hero.”
Wesley LePatner was an worker at Blackstone. The corporate remembered her in an announcement as “good, passionate, heat, beneficiant, and deeply revered inside our agency and past.”
FILE – Wesley LePatner, who was killed in a mass capturing in Midtown Manhattan on July 28, 2025. Photograph courtesy of the UJA-Federation of New York.
A 3rd sufferer was recognized by union 32BJ as SEIU safety officer Aland Etienne, who took his job duties extraordinarily critically.
“Each time a safety officer places on their uniform, they put their lives on the road,” 32BJ SEIU President Manny Pastreich mentioned. “Their contributions to our metropolis are important, although typically unappreciated. Aland Etienne is a New York hero. We’ll keep in mind him as such.
A photograph of sufferer Aland Etienne from his brother, Gathmand.
Gathmand Etienne
Sources recognized the fourth sufferer as Rudin Property Administration worker Julia Hyman. She graduated from Cornell’s Peter and Stephanie Nolan College of Resort Administration in 2020.
A fifth capturing sufferer who works for the NFL was injured and brought to the hospital in important situation, officers mentioned. That sufferer is out of surgical procedure and is steady, based on a supply conversant in the person’s standing.
SUSPECT’S MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY
Police traced Tamura’s BMW’s actions by way of a number of states because it left his house state of Nevada on Saturday and entered New York on Monday, about two hours earlier than the capturing, sources mentioned.
Tamura had two Psychological Well being Disaster Holds in his background in Nevada, one in 2022 and the opposite in 2024, regulation enforcement sources mentioned. These holds sometimes permit an individual to be detained for as much as 72 hours if they’re considered a hazard to themselves or others.
In keeping with one supply, when there may be such a maintain in Nevada, officers have to move the particular person to the hospital. As soon as that occurs, medical employees take over and determine how lengthy to carry the particular person.
A Las Vegas police supply mentioned Tamura additionally obtained his CCW, or hid carry license, in 2022 and in addition has a earlier arrest for trespassing within the state.
Horseshoe On line casino, which is owned by Caesars, launched an announcement that Tamura labored for them as a surveillance division worker.
Within the be aware obtained by officers, the suspect writes “inform Rick I am sorry for all the things.” Rick is believed to be the suspect’s safety supervisor on the Horseshoe on line casino, who regulation enforcement believes bought the decrease receiver, the central piece of the rifle used within the capturing, and the one portion that requires a background verify to purchase.
Las Vegas Metro Police have already interviewed him and NYPD detectives will speak to him
Police are working to find out the place the shooter bought the remaining elements for the M4-style rifle.
NYPD HEADS TO LAS VEGAS
Detectives from the NYPD are on their technique to Las Vegas as a part of the continued investigation into the Midtown capturing, Mayor Adams mentioned Tuesday.
“He was not on our radar. A part of our investigation goes to find out if he was on the radar of Nevada authorities,” Adams mentioned.
Police wish to perform a search warrant and hint the firearms that have been recovered, the mayor mentioned.
Detectives discovered extra ammunition in Tamura’s BMW, however it’s not recognized whether or not he deliberate to take extra motion.
As well as, Adams mentioned that to the NYPD’s data, the suspect was not on the NFL’s radar, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a part of the investigation.
Deputy Mayor for Public Security Kaz Daughtry speaks about extra particulars on the Midtown mass capturing.
REACTION POURS IN
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday issued an impassioned assertion pushing for an assault weapons ban.
“The killer used an AR-15-style assault rifle. The identical weapon of conflict utilized in mass shootings throughout America,” she mentioned in an announcement. “New York has a few of the strongest gun legal guidelines within the nation. We banned assault weapons. We strengthened our Pink Flag Legislation. We closed harmful loopholes. However our legal guidelines solely go thus far when an AR-15 will be obtained in a state with weak gun legal guidelines and introduced into New York to commit mass homicide.”
“The American individuals are uninterested in ideas and prayers,” the governor mentioned. “Congress should summon the braveness to face as much as the gun foyer and at last cross a nationwide assault weapons ban earlier than extra harmless lives are stolen.”
Hochul has ordered flags on all state authorities buildings to be flown at half-staff in honor of the victims.
“An assault on one in all us is an assault on all of us, and we should confront this violence head on,” she mentioned. “My coronary heart is with our neighbors in Manhattan, the victims and their households — in addition to the courageous women and men of the NYPD.”
President Donald Trump wrote on social media on Tuesday that he is been briefed “on the tragic capturing that came about in Manhattan, a spot that I do know and love.”
“I belief our Legislation Enforcement Businesses to unravel why this crazed lunatic dedicated such a mindless act of violence,” he wrote. “My coronary heart is with the households of the 4 individuals who have been killed, together with the NYPD Officer, who made the last word sacrifice. God Bless the New York Police Division, and God Bless New York!”
(ABC Information contributed to this report.)
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