Fear and confusion were rampant after a gunman shot and killed four people and wounded another in a Midtown Manhattan office tower Monday evening before, authorities said, taking his own life.
Fear and confusion were rampant after a gunman shot and killed four people and wounded another in a Midtown Manhattan office tower Monday evening before, authorities said, taking his own life.
Police identified him as Shane D. Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said surveillance video shows the suspect leaving a double-parked black BMW alone and entering the building on Park Avenue with an M4 rifle in his right hand. He immediately opened fire at NYPD officer Didarul Islam, killing him.
The gunman then shot a woman who’d taken shelter behind a pillar, then moved through the lobby, peppering it with gunfire, officials said. He then shot a security guard who’d taken cover behind a security desk. Another man who was wounded told police at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital he was shot in the lobby, Tisch said.
The police commissioner said at one point the gunman was waiting for an elevator to arrive and when it did, a woman came out but he let her to walk by unharmed. The gunman then took the elevator to the 33rd floor offices of Rudin Management and «began walking the floor, firing rounds as he traveled», Tisch said, killing one person before walking down the hallway and shooting himself in the chest.
One man who works in the building told CBS News New York he «heard all these loud bangs, had no idea what it was . I turn around all these people are running. . I came out five minutes later (and) one of my co-workers came out and he said he saw two people get shot, and five minutes after that another one of our co-workers came out and said he saw two police officers trying to go up to the elevator banks that go to the higher floors.
