An executive of Blackstone is one of the four people shot and killed by suspected shooter Shane Tamura who went on a shooting rampage in Midtown Monday. The executive has not yet been identified and was killed in the lobby of the Park Avenue office tower, the Wall Street Journal reported. 27-year-old Shane Tamura was also found dead at the scene at 345 Park Avenue. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tishch gave a timeline of how the shooting unfolded at the posh officer tower. 911 call centers started receiving calls about an active shooter at around 6.28 pm which means the shooter entered the building minutes before that. Surveillance video showed Tamura getting out of his double-parked BMW on Park Avenue between 51st and 52nd streets, carrying an M4 rifle in his right hand. Tamura entered the lobby, turned right, and opened fire on NYPD officer Didarul Islam. Then he shot a woman who took cover behind a pillar. Ramura then went to the elevator bank, where he shot a security guard, and another man, the Blackstone executive, was shot in the lobby. After gunfire erupted, Blackstone employees shared messages over email and Microsoft teams, warning others about the gunman downstairs, an employee told the Journal. Some employees barricaded themselves in their offices and bathrooms.
Did the shooter target Blackstone?
Speculations started about whether Tamura targeted Blackstone while law enforcement officers said his target was the National Football League office. Instead of going to the NFL’s fifth-story office at 345 Park Avenue, he picked the wrong elevator bank that took him to Rudin’s office on the 33rd floor, the officers said. That’s where the body of the shooter, believed to be Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old who last resided in Las Vegas, was found.A manifesto and notes found on him indicated a fixation with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, caused by head trauma, the officers said. His social media feed showed his football career ended after a head injury, and he wrote that the NFL didn’t do enough for CTE.
