The maniac gunman who killed four people at a Midtown office building on Monday evening was identified as a mentally ill 27-year-old Las Vegas man who drove across the country into the city just hours before the bloody rampage.
Shane Tamura — who had “a documented mental health history” — was named as the shooter who stormed 345 Park Ave., a swanky, 44-floor building, and opened fire, killing one police officer and three civilians before turning the gun on himself, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday night.
One person was shot and wounded, and four more sustained minor injuries while fleeing, Tisch said.
Tamura — who worked as a security guard at a Vegas casino — double-parked a vehicle with Nevada plates outside the office building before storming it with a rifle in plain view, according to cops and photos from the scene.
He sprayed bullets through the lobby, shooting the majority of the victims before heading to the 33rd floor, where he shot his final victim before killing himself, Tisch said.
Cops searched his car and found a rifle case with rounds, a loaded revolver, extra ammunition, magazines, a backpack, and medication prescribed to him.
A photo obtained by The Post showed he had a concealed firearms permit from Las Vegas with a 2027 expiration date.
The madman failed to show up to work on Sunday and drove through several states to reach New York City just hours before the mass shooting.
Tamura’s car was spotted passing through Colorado on July 26, Nebraska and Iowa on July 27, and Columbia, New Jersey, at 4:24 p.m. Monday. He drove into Manhattan “shortly thereafter,” Tisch said.
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The shooter was captured on surveillance footage strolling into the skyscraper with an assault rifle around 6:30 p.m., just around evening rush hour.
He sparked panic throughout the glossy tower that houses NFL headquarters, Blackstone, Rudin Management, and other Big Apple companies.
Smears of blood were seen on the assault rifle Tamura used during his deadly rampage, according to a photo obtained by The Post.
The Palmetto State Armory AR-15 assault rifle is .223-caliber and is equipped with a black scope, a handguard, and a shoulder sling.
Tamura acted alone, and his motive is not yet known, cops said.
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 woman 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.”
“His motives are still under investigation. We are working to understand why he targeted this particular location,” Tisch said.
He had “a documented mental health history,” according to law enforcement in Las Vegas, the police commissioner added.
Tamura had been a standout running back at Granada Hills Charter High School in California, according to an old interview he did with a local news outlet.
During the post-game interview, Tamura appeared soft-spoken while discussing the touchdowns he had scored that evening.
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Witnesses described mass panic as gunfire erupted.
“I was at work and this guy came in with an assault rifle and started shooting,” one man said. “I was in the lobby at work.”
Jessica Chen, who was on the second floor of the 44-story building, said she and about 150 people were in the middle of a presentation when the shooting started.
“We heard multiple shots go off in quick succession from the first floor, and a lot of us just rushed into the room,” Chen told ABC News.
“I was on the one block away, and I heard shots being fired and then a bunch of police, they came to neutralize it,” added 30-year-old Oleksandr Stupak in an interview with The Post.
Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy
