Midtown massacre is Gotham's deadliest mass shooting in 25 years

New York Post

29-07-2025

The horrific mass shooting at a Midtown office building on Monday was the deadliest gun attack in the Big Apple in 25 years.
Shane Tamura gunned down four innocent people — including an NYPD cop and a business executive — before turning the gun on himself late Monday.
The last time five people were killed in a Big Apple shooting was in 2000, when robbers shot seven employees at a Wendy's in Queens, leaving five to die, according to Mark Bryant of the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related violence.
5 The midtown shooting that occurred at 345 Park Ave on Monday was the deadliest in the Big Apple in 25 years.
In that case, all five dead were innocent victims, unlike Monday when the killer was among the fatalities.
Since then, New York City has seen several mass shootings — defined as four or more people getting shot — but none this century have taken as many lives as Monday's rampage on Park Avenue, even though others have seen more shot but surviving.
5 Shane Tamura killed four people — including an NYPD cop and a business executive– before fatally shooting himself on the 33rd floor of the office building.
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5 The 2000 Wendy's shooting in Queens was the most recent event in which five people were killed in a shooting, as multiple robbers fired shots at seven Wendy's workers.
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In 2022, Frank James threw smoke grenades and shot 10 people on a crowded Manhattan-bound N train during the morning rush — but all the victims survived.
In 2017, disgruntled doctor Henry Bello, who resigned from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital amid a sexual-harassment scandal, returned there with an assault rifle and fatally shot a female physician and wounded six others before killing himself, officials said.
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Ten years earlier, in 2007, a Marine veteran opened fire at a Greenwich Village pizza shop killing a bartender and two NYPD auxiliary officers who chased him.
The gunman, David Garvin, was shot dead by police, bringing the death toll to four.
How the shooting unfolded Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m.
Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle.
He 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, 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 before Tamura shoots himself in the chest.
It's unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: 'The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.'
'You never know where [mass shootings] are going to occur,' Bryant said.
'So, the fact that there's that many in New York City is actually a surprise, because they tend to be in … eastern Kentucky or somewhere.'
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Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had only Sunday touted how New York City saw the lowest number of shootings and homicides ever recorded — led by the administration's efforts to get guns off the streets.
'During the first half of 2025, New York City had the lowest number of shooting victims in recorded history and tied the all-time low for shooting incidents,' Tisch said.
Monday's attack is the US's 254th mass shooting this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
5 Tamura left a suicide note claiming he had CTE, as Mayor Eric Adams told reporters the shooter was allegedly targeting the NFL's corporate headquarters, but he took the wrong elevator bank that led him to the offices of Rudin.
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5 Data retrieved from the Gun Violence Archive shows that the tragic shooting that occurred in New York City on Monday is the 254th mass shooting this year.
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That figure represents a drop from this same time last year, Bryant said, and the US could possibly see fewer than 500 mass shootings nationwide for the first time since 2019 if the trend keeps up.
Bryant credited New York City for keeping gun violence down after rampant violence in the 1980s and 1990s through stricter gun laws and better policing.