A gunman armed with an assault rifle killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the NFL and several major financial firms before killing himself, New York City officials said.
One of the four victims killed in the shooting was a 36-year-old New York City Police Department officer who immigrated to the United States 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.
Authorities offered few details about the three other victims killed by the suspect – two men and a woman. A third man was seriously wounded in the shooting and is “fighting for his life” at a nearby hospital, the mayor said.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the gunman, identified as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident with a history of mental illness, had been driving across the country to New York in recent days.
The gunman is believed to have acted alone, and investigators have not yet determined a possible motive for the shooting, Tisch told reporters at a late-night news conference.
