(Bloomberg) – Sebije Nelovice just pulled the waste from one conference room and headed for another as she heard the first loud echoes around the hallway.
“I said,” What’s the matter? Plubs? “,” Bloomberg News said on Thursday.
It would not be strange to hear the engineers who worked upstairs. They wore heavy shoes and sometimes descended in groups, spoke and joked.
But then the door shook. And then it broke.
“I saw the glass fall – boom,” she said. A man with an assault rifle stood in the middle of the floor. “He put it right on me. Oh my God. God, help me.”
Nelovic, Rudin Management cleaner for 27 years, turned and ran. She walked through the corridor, around the elevators and stairs and to her own bathroom, where she was hiding in the closet.
Outside the door of violence, it continued.
On Monday evening, just before 6:30 pm, Shane Tamura from Black BMW outside 345 Park Avenue with a fully assembled AR-15 rifle. He walked into the building and started shooting in the hall.
First he shot and killed Didarula Islam, an officer of NYPD, who worked for the security details of the building. Then he shot and deadly injured guardian Aland Etienne. Wesley Lepatner, head of Blackstone Inc., was also killed in the hall. Craig Clementi, an employee in the NFL financial department, was shot and survived.
Investigators believe that Tamura focused on the NFL offices, but took the wrong bank of the elevator and instead arrived in Rudin management on the 33rd floor where he worked. There he fired a glass wall, stepped forward and started fire.
She has heard it from her hiding place inside the bathroom.
“I heard one shot,” she said. “Then I hear someone scream. And I said, oh my God, God, my God.”
She began to worry about Julia Hyman, a collaborator of Rudin, who often worked late and who saw most of the nights during cleaning.
“She’s sweet,” Nelovic said about Hyman, 27, who later found out that she was also killed in the attack. “She was sweet.”
When the police arrived, they found that Tamura was dead on the scene. He turned the rifle on himself.
Nelovic remained quiet in the closet until the officers arrived and opened the door. One of them helped her on the ground floor.
“He said,” You’ll be fine, “she said. But what she saw in the hall – blood, the consequences – she left her shaken.” I will not forget, “she said.” Never. ”
She is not sure whether he will return-to a building where she has worked for almost three decades, and to Rudin Management, a family real estate company whose owners consider “as my family”.
“It’s scary to go to work,” she said.
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