Officials Give Update Following Shooting In NYC
This one rattled New York to its core. A brazen gunman walked into a midtown Manhattan high-rise Monday — armed with a rifle, wearing sunglasses, and ready for war — and unleashed a hail of bullets inside a building that houses the NFL’s headquarters and the Blackstone investment firm. By the time the chaos was over, six people had been shot, two NYPD officers were hit, and one of them was dead.
The gunman, now identified as 41-year-old Shane Tamura, wasn’t fleeing when police found him — he was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 33rd floor, just steps away from the carnage he left behind.
His target? According to Mayor Eric Adams, Tamura was gunning for the NFL. “He seemed to have blamed the NFL,” Adams told Fox 5 NY, explaining that Tamura left a three-page suicide note railing against the league for its handling of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He even referenced Terry Long, the former Steelers lineman who died by suicide in 2006 after his own battle with brain trauma.
🚨#BREAKING: The New York Post is reporting that a police officer was killed when a crazed gunman wearing a bulletproof vest stormed a Midtown skyscraper
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) July 29, 2025
But here’s where it gets even more chilling: Tamura didn’t even make it to the NFL’s offices. He took the wrong elevator bank and ended up on a floor belonging to Rudin Management. Investigators now believe that mix-up — and the building’s active shooter protocols — may have spared countless more lives.
Video from the scene showed NYPD officers carrying out victims and tending to the wounded. One NFL employee remains hospitalized in serious condition, according to a memo from Commissioner Roger Goodell, who assured staff that everyone else has been accounted for.
UPDATE: At this time, the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized. https://t.co/I3OpVuUuit
— Jessica S. Tisch (@NYPDPC) July 28, 2025
And then there’s the speculation circus. Before authorities had even identified Tamura, CNN’s John Miller — in one of those moments that make you wince — openly speculated on-air that the shooter was “possibly white,” even while admitting law enforcement had no confirmed ID. They had a photo, they just didn’t release it — but hey, never miss a chance to toss in a narrative, right?
Here’s what we know now: Tamura had a history of mental health struggles. He traveled cross-country from California, his vehicle last spotted in New Jersey just hours before the attack. And when he walked into that building on Park Avenue, he was on a mission he never completed.
