New York police respond to reports of potentially armed suspect
The city's FBI field office confirmed in a social media post it was providing support to an 'active crime scene'.
Two senior New York City officials told NBC News that at least one police officer and another person were shot.
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The Sun
22 minutes ago
- The Sun
I thought I was having a secret, sext Facebook affair but it cost me £11K – my ‘lover' still hounds me three years on
WHEN Susan Green got a message through on Facebook complimenting her jewellery business, she thought nothing of it. The 63-year-old said she and the man, who went by Vuitton David, immediately hit it off and struck up a conversation. 3 3 Susan was selling jewellery on the social media site in November 2022 when she got the friend request from the man. But she soon realised that his name was fake and it was all a ploy to hand over her money. Now three years on, the sextortion scammer is still hounding Susan for money. She says that within one month, the conversation turned sexual - after he started asking what her type was and what sex positions she liked. Susan - who is married to John, 40 - claims the man asked her to send nude photos, telling her if she didn't send them, he would leak their conversations. After she sent him a naked photo, Susan claims he started blackmailing her for money, and told her if she didn't send it, he would leak her intimate photos. Sextortion is a type of online blackmail in which criminals threaten to share sexual pictures, videos, or information about a person unless they pay money. Over three years, Susan says she sent the stranger £40 to £65 at a time - which added up to £11,200 in total. In June 2025, Susan finally confessed what she had been going through to her family and they helped her contact the FBI, who are investigating. Susan, a former jewellery business owner, from Schaumburg, Chicago, Illinois, said: "I feel relieved that I've been able to speak to my family. "I'm speaking to a therapist - I feel so much better. 3 My disabled mum said she was in love with US soldier but she'd actually given conman £169k - she's one of 1,000s of Brits being targeted "It is embarrassing, you never think that this will happen to you, but before you know it, you are in the middle of it. "It is so hard to get out of the scam - they threaten you constantly. "Every time my phone rang, every time my husband got a text, I was worried that something was happening." In 2022, Susan was selling items online when she received a Facebook request from a man she didn't know. The mum-of-two accepted the friend request and soon received a message from him asking her how she was. She said: "It began with him asking how I was and he started saying my jewellery collection was beautiful. "Then he started asking sexual questions, he would ask what I like to do during sex, what partners I pick, and what I would like to do with him." Susan claims the stranger started asking her for sexual photos, which she refused to send at first, but insisted he threatened to leak their messages if she didn't. Out of fear of her family finding out, Susan continued to send money to the person who was bribing her. She said: "He said, 'unless you send me a picture, you can expect to see this on your Facebook page.' "He would ask me for sexual photos, and I sent them to him. Then he threatened that he would publish them unless I sent him money." Susan sent the first payment - which she says was for £40 - in November 2022. She says she would often send him small amounts, which he wasn't happy with. The torment got so bad that Susan had to close down her online business in December 2022. Susan said: "I sent him £40 in November just to keep him quiet and not leak our conversations. "He said he wanted £375 a month indefinitely. I said there was no way I could do that. "I bargained with him to make the amount smaller, but he kept asking for more. "I would send him 0 to £60 at a time, it was sporadic - sometimes I wouldn't pay, but he got threatening." In May 2025, he started messaging her again, but Susan stopped sending money and reported the case to the FBI to investigate. Susan said: "When he started texting me a few weeks ago, he said he was going to ruin me and I would have nothing to say about it. "The fact that he is still hounding me all these years later makes me think I won't be truly over with this until he is dead." Last month, Susan told her husband and family that she had been a victim of a scam. She said she feels "relieved" that her family know about it, as she would panic whenever her husband got a text or phone call, thinking it was from the scammer. Susan said: "I was really afraid to tell my family, but they have been so supportive, and been there for me "They told me to block him straight away. I can't let the torment carry on anymore. "It is so hard when they threaten you constantly, you just do what is asked because you're scared of the consequences." The FBI would not comment on the investigation. What to do if you fall victim to a sextortion Report it Contact your local police station. The police will take your case seriously, will deal with it in confidence and will not judge you for being in this situation. You should also report this to your internet service provider who will be able to preserve any evidence they have relating to the communications from the criminals and to the provider the recorded call was made on. Victim under 18 years of age should, in coordination with a trusted adult if possible, report the crime to the CEOP, a government team dedicated to helping victims of child exploitation and furthering online protection for minors, in addition to your local police station. Cut communications Don't communicate further with the criminals. Don't pay Many victims who have paid in the belief that the perpetrators will fulfil their promise of deleting the recordings, instead continue to receive more demands for higher amounts of money from the perpetrators. In some cases, even when the demands have been met the offenders will still go on to post the explicit videos. If you have already paid, check to see if the money has been collected. If it has, and if you are able, then make a note of where it was collected from. If it hasn't, then you can cancel the payment - and the sooner you do that the better. Preserve evidence Take screenshots of all your communication. Make a note of all details provided by the offenders, for example; the Zoom/Google Teams name (particularly the ID if possible), the Facebook URL; the Western Union or MoneyGram Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN); the virtual currency payment details; any photos/videos that were sent, etc. Importantly, do not delete any correspondence. Block sharing If you have a copy of the content -then you may be able to block it being shared on some platforms. For example, may be able to help prevent images being shared on their partner platforms which include Facebook, TikTok and OnlyFans.
The Guardian
30 minutes ago
- The Guardian
New York shooting: gunman kills four people at Manhattan skyscraper
A gunman killed four people at a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the NFL and the offices of several major financial firms before turning the gun on himself, New York officials have said. An NYPD officer identified as Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a father of two whose wife is pregnant, was among those killed. He was working off-hours as a security guard at the time, New York mayor Eric Adams told reporters, describing him as a 'true blue hero'. Authorities offered few details about the three other victims killed by the suspect – two men and a woman. A third male was gravely wounded by the gunfire and was 'fighting for his life' in a nearby hospital, the mayor said. Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner, confirmed that 'the lone shooter has been neutralized'. New York police also said the shooter acted alone and was dead. Tisch said the gunman, identified as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident with a history of mental illness, had driven cross-country to New York in recent days. The shooting spree in the evening rush hour began in the lobby of the Park Avenue tower in Midtown Manhattan. Tisch said that surveillance videos showed the gunman exiting a double-parked Black BMW between 51st and 52nd street on Park Avenue. He allegedly opened fire immediately after entering the tower's lobby, shooting multiple people. Police said that the gunman let a woman exit the elevator unharmed, and then took the elevator to the 33rd floor, the offices of Rudin Management Company, a behemoth New York real estate firm. Tisch said that the gunman opened fire on the 33rd floor and killed one person. The gunman then went to the stairwell and shot himself with an assault rifle, she said. Photographs show people exiting the building around 7pm ET with hands raised. Tisch said that the NYPD found weapons in the parked BMW, as well as a prescription in Tamura's name. Tisch said Tamura entered the office fresh after driving across the country, making stops in Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. Tamura's final alleged stop was in New Jersey at 4.24pm ET. The NYPD believes that the shooting was an isolated incident. US House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed his concern over the 'horrific shooting', and said he was 'praying hard' for the NYPD officer. 'May God watch over our city during this challenging moment,' Jeffries wrote in a post. A large police presence converged on the area around the tower, according to Reuters journalists near the scene. 'I just saw a lot of commotion and cops and people screaming,' said Russ McGee, a 31-year-old sports bettor who was working out in a gym adjacent to the skyscraper, told Reuters in an interview near the scene. The office building at 345 Park Avenue occupies an entire city block and houses the corporate offices for the National Football League and the headquarters of investment firm Blackstone. It also holds offices for JP Morgan Chase. According to an ESPN reporter, Jeff Darlington, an NFL security alert was sent to employees: 'Do not exit the building. Secure your location and hide until law enforcement clears your floor. Please switch phones to silent.' This shooting is the 254th mass shooting in the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related violence, who defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, are killed or injured by firearms. With Reuters
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Trump breaks silence on NYC shooting
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the shooting in Midtown Manhattan that resulted in the deaths of four people at Blackstone's New York headquarters on Monday evening. 'I trust our law enforcement agencies to get to the bottom of why this crazed lunatic committed such a senseless act of violence,' Trump wrote on social media about the deadliest mass shooting in his 'beloved' native city in 25 years. Shane Tamura, 27, walked into the 345 Park Avenue office building and opened fire with an M4 rifle, killing a security guard and a woman in the lobby, according to reports. He also shot and killed NYPD officer Didarul Islam and Wesley LePatner, a 43 year-old senior managing director at Blackstone. NYPD police officer Islam, 36, had two young sons, and his wife is pregnant with their third child. The president issued his statement on social media as he is currently in Scotland opening a new golf course and holding meetings on trade deals in Europe. After opening fire in the lobby, Tamura traveled on an elevator to the building's 33rd floor offices. 'From our preliminary investigation, he took the wrong elevator bank up to the NFL headquarters,' New York City Eric Adams told CBS. 'Instead, it took him to Rudin Management, and that is where he carried out additional shootings and took the lives of additional employees.' The shooting rampage ended when Tamura turned the gun on himself, committing suicide. Tamura was found with a letter on his body that ranted against the NFL and its handling of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 'Study my brain please I'm sorry Tell Rick I'm sorry for everything,' the note read. The NFL has offices on the fifth floor of the office building, which Tamura did not reach during his rampage. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed to employees, however, that a staff member was 'seriously injured,' in the attack. Tamura was a standout football player in High School but had a 'documented mental health history' according to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. He played football high school in Southern California as he attended Golden Valley High School in Santa Clarita and Granada Hills Charter High School. Tamura then moved to Las Vegas where he earned his Nevada concealed carry permit. He was also issued a work card by the Nevada Private Investigators Licensing Board. He drove from Las Vegas to New York last weekend to execute his premeditated attack, law enforcement officials confirmed.
