Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed the mass shooting at a Park Avenue office building while at his family’s private compound in Uganda where he is celebrating his wedding.
“I’m heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts,” Mamdani wrote in a post to X.
“Grateful for all of our first responders on the ground,” he concluded.
NYC Midtown shooting timeline
- Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Avenue started coming in at around 6:28 p.m.
- The shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, was seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd Street, with an M4 rifle.
- He then walks towards the skyscraper, enters the lobby and turns right, where he shot police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura then gunned down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, as he sprayed more bullets and walked toward the elevator bank — where he shot dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reported being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allowed a woman to walk out of the elevators unharmed, before heading up to the 33rd floor, where building owner Rudin Properties’ offices are located, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
- One man was shot and killed on that floor.
- “He then proceeds down a hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” ending his rampage.
- It’s unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
Mamdani is currently in Uganda celebrating his nuptials at a heavily-guarded private compound in the wealthy Buziga Hill area outside the capital city Kampala.
Police said four people were shot dead — including married 36-year-old police officer Didarul Islam — when maniac Shane Tamura, barged into the 44-story building in Midtown with an assault rifle at around 6:30 p.m.
A fifth person was also shot and injured. And four more sustained minor injuries while trying to flee, cops said.
Tamura, 27, of Nevada, then shot himself in the chest and was found dead on the 33rd floor.
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