A rifle-toting man killed an off-duty police officer and four others during a Monday evening shooting inside a Manhattan office building, police said, before the assailant turned the gun on himself.
The gunman shot and killed the cop, who was working security in his off hours, and the office workers inside the Midtown building that houses KPMG, Blackstone and the NFL’s headquarters, authorities said.
Six other people were wounded in the carnage that started around 6:30 p.m., according to the New York Post.
Law enforcement officials told multiple outlets that the suspect was Shane Tamura, 27, of Nevada. The suspect was found dead on the 33rd floor of the building with his ID and a concealed carry permit from Las Vegas.
New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the shooter had died around 7:50 p.m., just over an hour after the department first alerted the public to the shooting during the evening commute.
“Unfortunately, we had a shooting here with multiple injuries,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a video posted on social media. “The perpetrator, the lone perpetrator, is neutralized at this time.”
Surveillance footage circulating around social media appears to capture the suspect walking into the building with sunglasses on and a tan rifle casually hanging from his right hand.
Prior to the assailant’s death, Mr. Adams urged people to stay inside the skyscraper so authorities surrounding the building could do a floor-by-floor search for the gunman.
Local news coverage showed lines of people evacuating the office building with their hands above their heads. The shooting erupted near Grand Central Terminal and about a block away from St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Some finance workers at an office building down the block were picking up dinner at a corner eatery when they heard a loud noise and saw people running.
“It was like a crowd panic,” Anna Smith, who joined the workers pouring back into the finance office building, told the Associated Press.
They remained there for about two hours before being told they could leave.
