Man behind Midtown mass shooting named.
The person behind Monday’s chilling shooting inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper has been named.
The quiet before the carnage highlighted.
It was just past 6:30 p.m. Monday in Midtown Manhattan, and the towering offices at 345 Park Avenue were humming with post-work chatter and late meetings.
Commuters flooded the nearby streets between 51st and 52nd, as one black BMW with Nevada plates slid into a double-parked spot and sat idle.
Moments later, the driver stepped out—calm, deliberate—and began walking toward the gleaming skyscraper with a rifle slung across his chest in plain sight.
Shocking shooting explained.
At 6:28 p.m., 911 calls started flooding in. Gunshots had erupted inside the building’s lobby, loud enough to echo through multiple floors.
The gunman first turned right upon entering and opened fire on NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, 36, who was working off-duty security. He died at the scene.
Within seconds, the shooter sprayed bullets toward a woman cowering behind a pillar. She had no time to run.
A third victim, a security guard, was crouched at a desk near the elevator bank. He, too, was gunned down without warning.
One more man was shot in the chaos and remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition, according to police.
Panic in the tower profiled.
Witnesses say screams tore through the lobby as employees and visitors scattered, many ducking into conference rooms or hiding beneath desks.
“We heard multiple shots go off in quick succession from the first floor,” said Jessica Chen, who had been attending a presentation with over 150 people.
“A lot of us just rushed into the room and locked the doors,” she told ABC News, describing the confusion and terror on the upper floors.
On the street, bystanders heard what they thought were fireworks—until sirens started screaming and police cordoned off the block within minutes.
“I was one block away and heard the shots,” said Oleksandr Stupak, 30. “Then suddenly it was flashing lights, barricades, and SWAT swarming the area.”
Timeline of events traced.
Surveillance footage shows the gunman reaching the elevators and briefly pausing before stepping inside. There, he encountered a woman—and let her go.
He then ascended to the 33rd floor, where the offices of Rudin Properties are located. It was here he continued his violent spree.
Once on the floor, he began walking through the hallway, firing his weapon as he moved. Another man was killed there—bringing the body count to five.
The horror ended when the shooter turned the rifle on himself, delivering a single, fatal shot to the chest. He died instantly.
By 7:52 p.m., NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the building had been “contained” and the “lone shooter neutralized.”
As police processed the scene, a clearer picture of the shooter’s bizarre movements began to emerge—and it stretched across multiple states.
Authorities say the gunman had failed to show up to his job on Sunday, before driving out of Las Vegas in his black BMW.
His vehicle was first clocked in Colorado on July 26, then seen in both Nebraska and Iowa on the 27th.
By 4:24 p.m. Monday, just hours before the shooting, the car was caught on traffic cams entering Columbia, New Jersey.
Shortly afterward, it entered Manhattan. Police believe he drove directly to the scene of the massacre without stopping.
The shooter’s identity and troubled past confirmed.
The gunman was identified as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas man with a documented history of mental illness, police confirmed.
Tamura once showed promise as a high school football star in California, even earning praise in local interviews for his calm, soft-spoken demeanor.
He later worked as a casino security guard in Vegas—armed, licensed, and by all accounts unremarkable—until he abruptly vanished from work on Sunday.
Police found prescription medication in his vehicle, alongside multiple weapons, suggesting long-standing psychological issues that may have gone untreated.
Officials say Tamura had no known ties to New York and are still investigating what led him to drive cross-country to carry out this calculated massacre.
Questions around shooter’s motives remain.
What drove Shane Tamura from a quiet high school athlete to a rooftop gunman in Midtown remains one of the investigation’s biggest unanswered questions.
With five lives lost and a city shaken, police are now combing through digital records, hoping to uncover a motive buried somewhere in Tamura’s past.
For now, New York is left reeling—staring down the aftermath of a massacre no one saw coming.