According to Mayor Eric Adams, the gunman who shot and killed an NYPD officer and three others at a midtown Manhattan office building Monday before killing himself was apparently seeking to target NFL headquarters.Credit: Newsday
ByNewsday StaffUpdated July 29, 2025 5:23 pm
This story was reported and written byRobert Brodsky,Matthew Chayes,Anthony M. DeStefano,Janon Fisher, Nicole Fuller, Nicholas Grasso, Maureen Mullarkey, Al IannazzoneandTom Rock.
This story was reported and written byRobert Brodsky,Matthew Chayes,Anthony M. DeStefano,Janon Fisher, Nicole Fuller, Nicholas Grasso, Maureen Mullarkey, Al IannazzoneandTom Rock.
The gunman who shot and killed an NYPD officer and three others at a midtown Manhattan office building Monday before killing himself was apparently seeking to target NFL headquarters, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
The shooter left a note with his body that blamed the NFL for his mental health troubles, Adams said in an interview Tuesday.
“He did have a note on him,” Adams said on “CBS Mornings.” “The note alluded to that he felt he had CTE.
… He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury. The NFL headquarters is in the building.
… From our preliminary investigation, he took the wrong elevator.”
The dead include Didarul Islam, 36, an off-duty officer and father of two who was working security in the building, and three civilians.
The gunman took his own life on the building’s 33rd floor, shooting himself in the chest, officials said.
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Another person who was shot was in critical but stable condition, Adams said in a news conference Monday night at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The NYPD has not identified the other three people who were killed.
However, the investment management company Blackstone Inc., which has offices in the building, said that executive Wesley LePatner, 43, was one of the victims. Her roles included serving as the chief operating officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust.
“We are heartbroken to share that our colleague, Wesley LePatner, was among those who lost their lives in the tragic incident at 345 Park Avenue.
Words cannot express the devastation we feel,” spokesperson Matthew Anderson said in a statement.
Source: Newsday_Com
