President Trump mourned the loss of four people who were gunned down Monday night by a madman who stormed a sprawling office building in Midtown and opened fire.
“I have been briefed on the tragic shooting that took place in Manhattan, a place that I know and love,” Trump said on Truth Social Tuesday morning.
“I trust our Law Enforcement Agencies to get to the bottom of why this crazed lunatic committed such a senseless act of violence. My heart is with the families of the four people who were killed, including the NYPD Officer, who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
Authorities have identified Shane Tamura, 27, as the shooter who killed NYPD officer Didarul Islam, 36, and three other people during the deadly rampage.
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 Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m.
- The shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, is seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double-parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets, with an M4 rifle.
- He walks towards the skyscraper, enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby as he sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allows 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 is 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.”
Tamura, who came from Las Vegas, had driven across the country to carry out the massacre. Tamura died from a self-inflicted gunshot and was found with a suicide note, according to authorities.
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