(Bloomberg) – The work was liquidated on Monday at 345 Park Avenue when he walked across the public square across the public square just before the tower in the center of Manhattan with an assault rifle in his hand.
Within minutes, at least four people were dead and shooter in mass shooting in the epicenter of American financing. The torment scene developed in a 44 -storey, dark glass tower, which is located in the offices of private capital Giant Blackstone Inc.
Shane Tamura, a 27 -year -old man who last lived in Las Vegas, shot and killed a uniformed police officer in the hall and went to the 33. The attacker previously worked as a guardian in a casino in Las Vegas and, according to officials in criminal proceedings, had a hidden transport permit for Neva.
Tamura, which has a documented history of mental health problems, rode across the country before entering New York earlier on Monday, police commissioner Jessica Tisch said on press briefing and added that officials are still working to find out their motive.
The shooting closed a large section of Midtown Manhattan and managed employees in several close companies – including the Hedge Citadel Fund and the investment bank Jefferies Financial Group Inc. -to get into lock. The Avenue Park now houses more major financial companies than the real Wall Street, with the new new headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Several blocks south of the Blackstone base.
The videos from the inside showed that people were curled up in cramped rooms, some crying in fear and workers leaving their hands in the air when the police cleaned the floors. Blackstone employees have described sharing and receiving conflicting information about what is happening while some have crossed the barricade doors and entry points.
Workers ran down from 345 Park Avenue on the chaotic scene of flashing police cars. One cried and hugged another. Meanwhile, Blackstone sent a staff a rush of texts that asked them to confirm they were safe.
Depending on who reported this matter, the Blackstone employee was among those killed. The company is the world’s largest company in the world, with more than $ 1.2 trillion, and about 5,000 employees.
One Blackstone employee shared a photo that showed that the couches had accumulated close to the ceiling like a barricade. According to the people who received the news, two of the company’s employees told friends that they were hiding in office ash. When they got a versatile sign, some refused to leave the spaces where they barricaded, fossilized that they were still in danger.
Blackstone refused to comment while waiting for further details of the status of employees. Representatives for NFL and Rudin, a 100 -year real estate company that owns the main office building in the city, had no immediate comment or responded to the news.
The killed police officer, didarul Islam, was a immigrant from Bangladesh, who was at work for three years, the authorities said.
“It was a real blue New Yorker,” said Mayor Eric Adams at briefing late on Monday. “He was a hero and we admire him for putting his life on the line.”
Attack – less than eight months and five blocks from the deadly shooting of the Executive Director of the UnitedHealth Group on Midtown Manhattan – raised questions about the motif of the shooter and its ability to get far into the building.
The tracking video shows that the shooter left the black BMW to double the park and entered the building carrying a rifle, said the police commissioner Tisch.
He then started fire in the hall and hit several people, including a policeman. The security guard at the table near the lift bank was also shot.
The shooter went to the elevator where he let the woman get off. Then he went to the 33rd floor, which is occupied by Rudin. There he fired more rounds and killed the woman, the authorities said. Then he turned the gun.
“The city has sadness for lost innocent lives,” Tisch said, adding that one person was treated in the hall.
As chaos retreated, employees who work in Midtown Manhattan thought about the status of their offices on Tuesday. Text message sent to JPMORGANA employees said that their campus was expected to operate on Tuesday under normal conditions, but employees should anticipate some disturbances near the Midtown office.
In the Citadel, two employees said they had been locked for more than an hour, one of which describes how the collaborators curled up and listened to the police scanner while waiting. From 21:00 in New York, one worker said they were still waiting to hear if they could work the next day from home.
Later on Monday, President Blackstone Jon Gray and CEO Steve Schwarzman sent a note to employees describing what happened as “unimaginable” and “worst day in the history of the company”, according to the person who informed about this matter. On the coming day, they will host the nationwide call of the zoom to address employees.
Blackstone’s office will be closed on Tuesday and is expected to be closed for the coming week, the person said.
-S using Madison Muller, Katia Porzecanski, David Gillen and Ben Bain.
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