345 Park Avenue NYC shooting: What we know about the victims
Four people were killed and a fifth was injured in the mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday.
Here is what we know about the victims:
Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone employee, wife and mom, was killed, the company said.
She was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone who worked in the real estate division. She previously spent a decade working at Goldman Sachs.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University and served on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, The UJA-Federation of New York, and Yale University Library Council, the company said.
"Words cannot express the devastation we feel. Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed," Blackstone said in a statement. "She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous, and deeply respected within our firm and beyond."
UJA-Federation of New York said LePatner was "extraordinary in every way - personally, professionally, and philanthropically."
In 2023, she was honored with the organization's Alan C. Greenberg Young Leadership Award, recognizing her commitment to the community and her achievements.
In the wake of October 7, Wesley led a solidarity mission with UJA to Israel.
"She lived with courage and conviction, instilling in her two children a deep love for Judaism and the Jewish people," the organization said.
LePatner is survived by her husband and their children.
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Off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam was the father of two and his wife was pregnant. She is due with their third child next month.
"Police Officer Didarul Islam represented the very best of our department. He was protecting New Yorkers from danger when his life was tragically cut short today," the NYPD said in a statement.
Islam is an immigrant from Bangladesh and was assigned to the 47th precinct. He was on the force for three and a half years.
He was off duty and working a private security detail assignment at the time of the shooting.
The names of two other victims have not been released.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo to staff that an NFL employee was seriously injured in the attack and was hospitalized in stable condition.
"We are deeply grateful to the law enforcement officers who responded to this threat quickly and decisively and to Officer Islam, who gave his life to protect others," Goodell said.
Goodell praised the swift law enforcement response and honored the NYPD officer who was killed in the attack. Employees in New York were instructed to work remotely Tuesday or take the day off, he said, and additional security will be in place.
"Every one of you is a valued member of the NFL family," Goodell said. "We will get through this together."
Investigators believe Shane Tamura, of Las Vegas , was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people Monday in the building's lobby but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks, Mayor Eric Adams said in interviews.
Police said Tamura had a history of mental illness, and a rambling note found on his body suggested that he had a grievance against the NFL over a claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that can only be diagnosed after someone has died.
Tamura played high school football in California nearly two decades ago but never in the NFL.
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