{"id":31915,"date":"2025-07-29T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31915\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:39:12","slug":"manhattan-gunman-who-killed-four-was-targeting-nfl-headquarters-new-york-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31915\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan gunman who killed four was targeting NFL headquarters, New York mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Off-duty police officer Didarul Islam and Blackstone employee Wesley LePatner were among those killed in the shooting.Mike Segar\/Reuters<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe Shane Tamura of Las Vegas was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people Monday in the building\u2019s lobby but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks, Adams said in interviews on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed. Police said Tamura had a history of mental illness, and a rambling note found on his body suggested he had a grievance against the NFL over an unsubstantiated claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He had played football in high school in California nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seemed to have blamed the NFL,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cThe NFL headquarters was located in the building, and he mistakenly went up the wrong elevator bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

The note claimed he had been suffering from CTE \u2013 the degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football \u2013 and said his brain should be studied after he died, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

It also specifically referenced the National Football League, one of the people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n

What we know so far about the Manhattan shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunman kills four, including police officer, in shooting at New York City office tower<\/a><\/p>\n

A motive has not been determined but investigators were looking into, based on the note, whether he might\u2019ve specifically targeted the building because it is home to the NFL\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

The shooting took place at a skyscraper that is home to the headquarters of both the NFL and Blackstone, one of the world\u2019s largest investment firms, as well as other tenants.<\/p>\n

The company confirmed one of its employees, Wesley LePatner, was among those killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWords cannot express the devastation we feel,\u201d the firm said in a statement. \u201cWesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous, and deeply respected within our firm and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Yale graduate, LePatner was a real estate executive at Blackstone, according to the firm\u2019s website, and spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs before joining the firm in 2014.<\/p>\n

A man carrying a rifle killed four people at a New York City office tower Monday, including an off-duty police officer, and wounded a fifth before taking his own life, officials said.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Surveillance video showed the man exiting a double-parked BMW just before 6:30 p.m. carrying an M4 rifle, then marching across a public plaza into the building. Then, he started firing, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, killing a police officer working a corporate security detail and then hitting a woman who tried to take cover as he sprayed the lobby with gunfire.<\/p>\n

The man then made his way to the elevator bank and shot a guard at a security desk and shot another man in the lobby, the commissioner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur officer, he was slain in the entryway to the right as soon as he entered the building, the suspect entered the building,\u201d Adams said in a TV interview. \u201cHe appeared to have first walked past the officer and then he turned to his right, and saw him and discharged several rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man took the elevator to the 33rd floor offices of the company that owned the building, Rudin Management, and shot and killed one person on that floor. The man then shot himself, the commissioner said. The building, 345 Park Avenue, also holds offices of the financial services firm KPMG.<\/p>\n

The officer killed was Didarul Islam, 36, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had served as a police officer in New York City for 3 1\/2 years, Tisch said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was doing the job that we asked him to do. He put himself in harm\u2019s way. He made the ultimate sacrifice,\u201d Tisch said. \u201cHe died as he lived. A hero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Off-duty police officer Didarul Islam and Blackstone employee Wesley LePatner were among those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[17568,49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-31915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-advblackout","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}