Reuters, Washington: The New York police officer killed in a mass shooting in a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday was described by the city's mayor and police commissioner as a heroic Bangladeshi immigrant who saved lives while "putting his life on the line."
A gunman opened fire on Monday inside a midtown office tower, killing four people, including Officer Didarul Islam, 36, before fatally shooting himself, officials said.
"We lost four souls to another senseless act of gun violence, including a member of the New York City Police Department, Officer Islam," New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters in a press conference late on Monday.
Adams said the officer was a three and a half year veteran of the police department.
"He was saving lives, he was protecting New Yorkers," Adams said. "He loved this city, and everyone we spoke with stated he was a person of faith and a person that believed in God."
Adams said he met the officer's family on Monday night.
"I told them that he was a hero, and we admire him for putting his life on the line," the mayor added.
Islam was married, had two young sons, and his wife is pregnant with a third child, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in the press conference.
"He put himself in harm's way. He made the ultimate sacrifice — shot in cold blood," she said.
Islam was working on a paid security detail in the building when the shooting occurred, the commissioner added.
Such details allow "companies to hire officers in uniform to provide extra uniform security," she said.
Excluding Islam, 42 federal, state, county, municipal, military, and U.S. territories officers have died in the line of duty in the first half of 2025, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
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New York Post reports; Didarul's wife is eight-month pregnant, and the couple have two young boys, according to officials and sources. His parents also live with the family in Parkchester, Bronx, New York City.
He had been on the force since December 2021 and worked out of the 47th precinct in the Bronx, according to
He was off-duty on Monday and working as a security guard for Rudin Management Company in the building, but was wearing his NYPD uniform, sources said.
Suspected shooter Shane Tamura seen in surveillance video before the shooting Monday. The video was obtained by NY Post.
Three other civilians were fatally shot in the bloodbath, and one more was injured. The surviving victim is in critical but stable condition, authorities said.
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Tamura barricaded himself inside the skyscraper and was later found dead on the 33rd floor from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, sources said.
AFP reports, five people, including a police officer, and a suspected gunman were dead following a shooting Monday at a skyscraper in central Manhattan.
"Four people, including a New York Police Department officer, were killed in today's shooting in Midtown Manhattan," a law enforcement source told broadcaster CNN, adding that the suspected gunman died from what is believed to be a "self-inflicted injury."
Police investigate motive behind deadly mass shooting in Manhattan office tower
Reuters, New York: New York City homicide detectives sought clues on Tuesday to what possessed a Las Vegas man to drive cross-country and storm into a midtown Manhattan office tower to open fire with a military rifle, killing four people, including a policeman.
Gunman Shane Tamura, 27, brought the carnage to an end not long after it began on Monday evening by fatally shooting himself in the chest on the 33rd floor of the Park Avenue skyscraper.
The building houses the NFL headquarters and offices of private equity giant Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab, the accounting firm KPMG and real estate company Rudin Management, among other major financial firms.
Police said the shooter when he was found was carrying "a manifesto" and notes about chronic traumatic encephalopathy caused by head trauma, Bloomberg News reported, citing two senior law enforcement officers.
He wrote that the NFL did not do enough to address CTE, which has been linked to cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems in former players. The suspect had played football before a head injury ended his career, Bloomberg reported.
"We're still investigating," New York City Mayor Eric Adams told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program in an interview on Tuesday, adding that investigators have reason to believe the shooter was focused on the NFL offices housed in the building.
Among the four victims slain was Didarul Islam, 36, a New York Police Department officer who immigrated to the U.S. from Bangladesh. Mayor Eric Adams described the officer, who had been on the force for about three and a half years, as a "true blue" hero.
A Blackstone executive was among those killed in the shooting, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Other employees of the investment management firm are in the hospital receiving treatment, the Journal reported.
An NFL employee was also injured in the shooting and was in stable condition at a hospital, the Journal reported, citing a memo sent by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to league staff.
Goodell wrote there would be "increased security presence" at the league's offices "in the days and weeks to come," ESPN reported.
Authorities offered few details about the three other victims - two men and a woman. A third man was gravely wounded by the gunfire and was "fighting for his life" in a nearby hospital, the mayor said.
HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Monday night that the gunman appeared to have acted alone.
Tisch said Tamura had a documented history of mental illness and appeared to have driven to New York from Las Vegas over a period of three days.
According to recap of the shooting spree outlined by Tisch, Tamura entered the skyscraper's lobby, turned to his right and immediately opened fire on the NYPD officer, who was assigned to the building's security detail.
The suspect then proceeded to shoot a woman and two men as he sprayed the lobby area with gunfire but inexplicably allowed another woman to pass him unharmed before he took the elevator to the 33rd-floor offices of Rudin Management. There he fatally shot his final victim before taking his own life, Tisch said.
A widely published photo of the shooter, that CNN said was shared by police, showed him walking into the building carrying his rifle. Preliminary checks of the suspect's background did not show a significant criminal history, CNN reported, citing officials.
Another widely circulated photo showed the permit issued to Tamura by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department allowing him to legally carry a concealed firearm.
Tamura carried out his rampage, according to Tisch, armed with an M4 carbine, an assault-style rifle used extensively in the U.S. military.
A loaded revolver was later recovered from the black BMW vehicle Tamura had left double-parked outside the office tower, along with a backpack and prescription medications, she said.
