Real Estate Associate Killed in Park Avenue Shooting Recalled for Her ‘Light'
There are indications that the gunman had gone to the Park Avenue office building to settle a grudge with one of the other tenants, the National Football League. A note found in his wallet indicated that he held the N.F.L. responsible for what he believed was an injury to his brain. But after he unleashed a fusillade in the lobby, it appears he took the elevator to the wrong floor.
There he encountered Ms. Hyman, 27, an associate at Rudin Management, a long-established real estate company where she was one of the newer employees. He fired into the offices at random, the police said, killing Ms. Hyman.
Hers was the fourth life that the gunman, identified by the police as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, took that day. He had already shot a police officer, an executive and a security guard. The fifth life was his own: He turned the gun on himself there on the 33rd floor.
Ms. Hyman was a New Yorker, a graduate of the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, where she was not just a varsity athlete in soccer, swimming and lacrosse, but the captain of all three teams her senior year, according to a letter sent to the student body on Tuesday by Kari Ostrem, the head of school.
At Riverdale, she was a leader of the peer mentoring program and received the school's prestigious Founders Award, presented to 'that young woman who best demonstrated outstanding ability, leadership and sportsmanship and the qualities of hard work, excellent attitude and responsibility to her teammates and school,' Ms. Ostrem's letter said.
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