The bloodstained assault rifle used by gunman Shane Tamura during his deadly rampage inside a Midtown skyscraper Monday night is shown in shocking detail in photos obtained by The Post.
The Palmetto State Armory M4 assault rifle used in the shooting that killed an NYPD cop and four civilians is .223-caliber and is equipped with a black scope, a handguard and a shoulder sling.
The AR-style gun retails for around $500 and was equipped with a high capacity magazine.
NYC Midtown shooting timeline
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch provided a timeline of events leading up to Monday’s mass shooting:
- 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.”
Photos show the green handguard of the rifle soaked in blood on the carpet in a 33rd-floor office inside 345 Park Avenue, where the 27-year-old carried out the rush-hour mass shooting.
The NYPD found a loaded revolver, ammunition, magazines, and a rifle case with rounds in a black BMW which Tamura double parked outside the midtown skyscraper, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference Monday night.
In the car, registered in Nevada to Tamura, also had a backpack and prescription medication inside, the commissioner said.
The gun retails for about $420 and appears to have a magazine with a 30-round capacity.
A concealed firearms permit from Las Vegas, Nevada, was found at the scene with a photo of the suspect and his name. The permit was issued in July 2022, according to the photo.
Tamura unleashed a “barrage of shots” with the assault rifle, which witnesses said sounded “like an automatic weapon” — killing five people and injuring several others in the violent spree that began at around 6:30 p.m.
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After shooting several people in the building lobby, Tamura fatally shot NYPD officer Didarul Islam, who was working as a paid security detail and sitting near the elevator banks of the office building.
Tamura allowed a woman exiting those elevators to pass by unharmed.
He then shot and killed a person on the 33rd floor of the building, which houses the headquarters for Blackstone and the NFL, before turning the gun on himself.
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