A 27-year-old standout Cornell grad tragically landed in Shane Tamura’s crosshairs — as a result of the killer by accident took the fallacious elevator to her employer’s flooring and encountered her, capturing her useless.
Julia Hyman, who labored for Rudin Administration — the corporate that owns the Midtown skyscraper the place Tamura launched his rampage Monday — was one of many 4 individuals killed within the horror.
The 2020 Ivy League Dean’s Record graduate — who reportedly attended the luxurious Riverdale Nation Faculty in The Bronx when youthful and was captain of her varsity high-school lacrosse crew — had labored as a Rudin affiliate for lower than a yr, in line with her LinkedIn.
Investigators consider Tamura wished to shoot up the NFL’s places of work on the constructing’s decrease flooring, with him claiming in rambling handwritten notes that he suffered from a mind harm from taking part in soccer in highschool.
However he ended up within the fallacious elevator financial institution at 345 Park Ave. — and it skipped the NFL’s flooring and took him as a substitute as much as the thirty third flooring, the place Rudin’s places of work are positioned and he encountered Hyman.
Three others had been killed within the foyer moments earlier by Tamura: Blackstone exec Wesley LePatner, a married mother of two; NYPD officer Didarul Islam, whose spouse is because of quickly give beginning to their third baby; and safety guard and pa Aland Etienne.
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“The Rudin household and everybody at our firm are devastated by yesterday’s mindless tragedy,” a Rudin rep stated in an announcement.
“Our ideas and prayers are with these injured and misplaced final night time, together with our cherished Rudin colleague, a courageous New York Metropolis police officer, a beloved foyer safety guard and an worker at a tenant agency.”
“We’re grateful to the NYPD, FBI, EMS and a number of different emergency responders for his or her swift and brave motion,” the consultant stated.
Kate Walsh of the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan Faculty of Lodge Administration, which Hyman attended, known as Hyman “a unprecedented scholar whose tutorial achievements and mental curiosity made an enduring impression.
“Julia’s ardour for actual property led her to pursue a minor within the discipline and construct a profitable profession after commencement,” the professor and dean stated.
Hyman’s killer, who drove from Las Vegas to assault the NFL HQ, ended his rampage by fatally capturing himself, cops stated.
The crazed shooter left behind notes discovered stashed in his pockets that claimed he suffered from CTE — the degenerative mind illness that’s been linked to concussions and different repeated head trauma frequent involved sports activities like soccer.
Within the writings, Tamura blamed soccer for his obvious wrestle with CTE and begged for his mind to be studied within the wake of the bloodbath.
“Please examine mind for CTE. I’m sorry. The league knowingly hid the risks to our brains to maximise income,” he wrote. “They failed us.”
How the capturing unfolded
- Reviews of the capturing at 345 Park Ave. begin coming in round 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 foyer and turns proper, the place he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, useless.
- Tamura weapons down a girl cowering behind a pillar within the foyer, sprays extra bullets and walks towards the elevator financial institution — the place he shoots useless a safety guard crouching at his desk.
- Yet one more man stories being shot and injured within the foyer. He was in important however steady situation.
- The gunman permits a girl to stroll out of the elevators unhurt earlier than heading as much as the thirty third flooring, the place constructing proprietor Rudin Properties’ places of work are positioned, “and begins to stroll the ground, firing as he traveled.”
- One girl is shot and killed on that flooring earlier than Tamura shoots himself within the chest.
- It’s unclear how lengthy 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.”
He additionally name-checked Terry Lengthy, the previous Pittsburgh Steelers participant who was recognized with CTE after downing antifreeze to kill himself 20 years in the past.
“Terry Lengthy, soccer gave me CTE and it induced me to drink a gallon of antifreeze,” Tamura wrote. “You’ll be able to’t go in opposition to the NFL, they’ll squash you.
Mayor Eric Adams confirmed Tuesday that the mentally sick shooter appeared to have been focusing on NFL’s company headquarters, which has places of work within the towering Park Avenue constructing.
“We’re nonetheless going by means of the suicide notice to zero on within the precise motive however at the moment it seems as if it’s one thing connected to his perception he skilled CTE from the NFL,” Adams stated in interviews.
Regardless of suggesting he suffered from CTE from taking part in within the NFL, Tamura solely performed highschool football in California.
