Rifle-toting NYC shooter Shane Tamura kills 5 —including NYPD officer — injures six before turning gun on himself at Blackstone, NFL HQ
A police officer and at least four other people were shot and killed — and several others injured — by a crazed gunman who stormed a swanky Midtown skyscraper early Monday evening — before turning the gun on himself, sources said.
The 27-year-old maniac, identified by sources as Shane Tamura, barged into the 44-story building — which houses Blackstone and the NFL headquarters — armed with a rifle and opened fire at around 6:30 p.m. during the evening rush, sending workers running for their lives, law enforcement sources told The Post.
A witness on the first floor said that “it sounded like a barrage of shots …Like an automatic weapon. Like a high-capacity weapon.”
Chilling images showed the gunman, who’s from Las Vegas, calmly strolling across the Park Ave. skyscraper’s entry plaza with an assault rifle at his side before carrying out the carnage.
Sources told The Post the number of victims are expected to rise and authorities search the skyscraper in the aftermath of the mayhem.
At least one police officer was shot at the scene and died at a hospital. Four civilians were also fatally shot and six were injured, sources said.
The suspect barricaded himself inside and was discovered dead from a gun-inflicted gunshot wound on the 33rd floor, where other victims were being found, sources said.
Another photo obtained by The Post shows the gunman lying, apparently already dead, on the floor of the 33rd floor.
It wasn’t immediately clear what company the 33rd floor houses.
He is believed to have acted alone, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
“The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized,” she wrote on X just over an hour after the chaos started.
One man person who apparently works in the Park Ave. tower was seen sitting on a marble stoop outside a nearby building hyperventilating with a bandage around their hand.
“I was at work and this guy came in with an assault rifle and started shooting. I was in the lobby at work,” the man said into a phone while calling a loved-one.
Oleksandr Stupak, 30, was standing on the street nearby when he heard gunshots ring out — and watched in shock as armed police flooded the building
“I was on the one block away and I heard shots being fired and then a bunch of police, they came to neutralize it,” he said. “I went to the Citizen app and it says active shooting. A lot of police started to come. I mean. [It’s ] crazy.”
The blocks surrounding the building were flooded with police cars, fire engines, ambulances and first responders, while helicopters filled the sky overhead.
And footage from the scene showed officers hastily performing CPR on an apparent victim after hauling his limp body in the middle of the street.
The FBI and bomb squad has also responded to the scene.
Mayor Adams has been briefed on the incident, and cautioned New Yorkers to avoid the area.
The officer who was killed was from the 47 Precinct, but was working a paid detail for the owner of the building, Rudin Properties, at the time of the shooting, sources said.
