NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch laid out a timeline of how Shane Tamura carried out his heinous assault on a Midtown skyscraper early Monday night.
Right here’s a full breakdown of the harrowing occasions:
Experiences of the taking pictures at 345 Park Avenue began coming in at round 6:28 p.m.
The shooter, Tamura, 27, was seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd Avenue, with an M4 rifle.
He then walks in direction of the skyscraper, enters the foyer and turns proper, the place he shot police officer Didarul Islam, 36, useless.
Tamura then shot a lady cowering behind a pillar within the foyer, as he sprayed extra bullets and walked towards the elevator financial institution — the place he additionally fired at a safety guard crouching at his desk.
Yet one more man reported being shot and injured within the foyer. He was in crucial however steady situation.
The gunman allowed a lady to stroll out of the elevators unhurt, earlier than heading as much as the thirty third flooring, the place constructing proprietor Rudin Properties’ places of work are situated, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
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One lady was discovered shot and killed on that flooring.
“He then proceeds down a hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” ending his rampage.
It’s unclear how lengthy the mayhem lasted. Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
