(New York) New York mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the armed man who killed four people in an office building in Manhattan on Monday targets the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL).
Investigators believe that Shane Tamura, from Las Vegas, was trying to go to the NFL offices after shooting several people on Monday in the building hall, but that he accidentally cheated on the elevator, Adams said at an interview on Tuesday.
Four people, including a New York police officer who was not in service, were killed. Police said Tamura had mental health history, and an inconsistent note found on her body suggested that he wanted the NFL about an unfounded allegation that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He played football when he was in high school in California almost twenty years ago.
“He seemed to blame the NFL,” said the mayor. “The NFL headquarters is in the building, and he was the wrong elevator. »»
The note indicated that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (etc.), a degenerative brain disease linked to concussion and other repeated head trauma frequent in contact sports such as football, and asked that his brain be studied after his death, two people close to the file to the Associated Press.
The document also explicitly referred to the NFL, said one of these people.
The mobile has not yet been determined, but the investigators examined, on the basis of the note, if the suspect had specifically targeted the building because it houses the siege of the NFL.
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The building, located at 345 Park avenue, notably houses the registered office of the NFL.
The shooting took place in a skyscraper that houses the headquarters of NFL and Blackstone, one of the largest investment companies in the world, as well as other tenants.
The company confirmed that one of its employees, Wesley Lepatner, was among the victims.
“Words cannot express the sadness we feel,” said society in a statement. “Wesley was a very popular member of the Blackstone family and we will miss a lot. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous and deeply respected within our company and outside. »»
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Police intervene following the shooting in the Midtown Manhattan district.
A graduate of Yale, Lepatner was an executive in real estate at Blackstone, according to the company’s website, and spent more than ten years at Goldman Sachs before joining the company in 2014.
The surveillance video shows the man coming out of a BMW parked in double file shortly before 6:30 p.m., armed with a M4 rifle, then crossing a public square to enter the building. He then began to shoot, said police commissioner Jessica Tisch, killing a police officer responsible for the company’s security, then touching a woman who was trying to take shelter as he machine -gunned the entrance hall.
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The man, armed with a M4 rifle, crossed a public square to enter the building.
The man then went to the elevators and shot a guard at the security post, then on another man in the hall, said the commissioner.
“Our agent was killed in the entrance to the right as soon as he entered the building, the suspect entered the building,” said Adams during a television interview. “He seems to have first passed the agent, then turned to the right, saw him and fired several shots. »»
The man took the elevator until 33e floor, where the offices of the company owner of the building, Rudin Management are located, and has shot a person on this floor. The man then committed suicide, said the commissioner. The building, located at 345 Park Avenue, also houses the offices of the KPMG financial services company.
The killed agent was Didarul Islam, 36, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had served as a police officer in New York for three and a half years, Tisch said at a press conference.
Photo taken from Eric Adams’ X account
New York mayor Eric Adams is attending the funeral of Didarul Islam, a nypdian policeman killed during the shooting.
“He was doing the work we asked him to do. He endangered. He made the ultimate sacrifice, “said Tisch. “He died as he lived. In heroes. »»
Adams said one of the investigation difficulties resided in the fact that Tamura had arrived in New York shortly before the shooting, leaving few clues in the region.
The mayor added that this also represented a challenge for the police “who have to face individuals from regions where the legislation on firearms is lax, allowing them to obtain powerful weapons, and who then go to cities like New York where the legislation on firearms is strict”.
“I was informed of the tragic shooting that occurred in Manhattan, a place that I know and that I like,” wrote the American president on his social social platform, saying having “confidence in our police to shed light on the reasons that prompted this crazy to commit an act of violence so insane”.
