Shooter Went To Wrong Floor, Mayor Says As Victims Are Identified

The horrific mass killing in Manhattan yesterday has an identified shooter, and now, the victims are being named – and there is a note that the shooter apparently left behind.

In an interview given today, Mayor Eric Adams said that the shooter, identified as Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, had a suicide note that indicated his target was the NFL offices in the building. However, after killing people in the lobby, he went to the wrong floor, and started shooting there instead.

The gunman who stormed a high-rise building in the heart of New York City on Monday evening was trying to target the NFL’s headquarters but took the wrong elevator bank, Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday.

Adams appeared on Fox 5 NY’s “Good Day New York” and said the gunman, identified as Shane Tamura, accidentally entered the wrong elevator banks. He said he went to the floor where Rudin Management was located.

Adams added that the gunman alluded to having suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and that he had a grievance against the NFL.

“He seemed to have blamed the NFL,” the mayor said. “The NFL headquarters was located in the building, and he mistakenly went up the wrong elevator bank.”

Adams said investigators were going through the “suicide note” the gunman left.

The New York Post first reported the notion of a “suicide note” found near his body on the 33rd floor. Fox News Digital reached out to the NYPD and the NFL for comment.

There’s just one major problem with the allegation by the shooter and his claims of CTE. He never played in the NFL; he had only played high school football. And he may have self-diagnosed his “CTE” after watching a documentary on it.

Shane Tamura, 27, had the rambling writings stashed in his wallet when he stormed the Midtown skyscraper at 345 Park Ave., which is home to the NFL’s corporate headquarters, the sources said.

Tamura, who claimed he suffered from CTE, had scrawled “frontline documentary” on one of the pages — an apparent reference to the “League of Denial” doc that probed the links between the NFL and the brain injury linked to head trauma.

The note also made mention of the “Fainaru brothers” — the two ESPN reporters who co-wrote the “League of Denial” book.

The names of several doctors were featured on one page — including Dr. Ann McKee, who is the Chief of Neuropathology at BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Dr. Christopher Nowinski, the co-founder of Boston University’s CTE Center.

Elsewhere in the ramblings, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with CTE – the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy and begged for his brain to be studied in the wake of the massacre.

“Please study brain for CTE. I’m sorry. The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits,” he continued. “They failed us.”

The degenerative brain disease has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football, but it can only be diagnosed after someone has died.

Tamura also offered up an apology in the note, writing: “Tell Rick I’m sorry for everything.”

Law enforcement sources said that reference was apparently a nod to the person who purchased the rifle used in the attack.

The NYPS Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said that the shooter had a history of mental health issues, and had driven cross-country from Las Vegas and committed the mass murders immediately after arriving in New York City.

Sadly, we now also know the identities of the people killed by the shooter. Off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam, age 36, was the first victim identified to the media. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two children, along with his parents.

Blackstone excutive Wesley LePatner was also murdered. She was a married mother of two, and was in the lobby of the building when the shooter opened fire.

“We are heartbroken to share that our colleague, Wesley LePartner, was among those who lost their lives in the tragic incident at 345 Park Avenue,” Blackstone told The Post in a statement.

“Words cannot express the devastation we feel. Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed.

“She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous, and deeply respected within our firm and beyond.

“She embodied the best of Blackstone. Our prayers are with her husband, children and family.”

LePatner joined Blackstone in 2014 and served as the global head of Core+ Real Estate and chief executive officer for Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust — a $53 billion property owner, according to Bloomberg.

My heart goes out to the family, friends, and colleagues of Wesley LePatner, one of the victims of the tragic shooting in Midtown Manhattan.

A city is only as strong as its people, and Wesley LePatner represented the very best of New York. She left a lasting impact wherever she… pic.twitter.com/AczijmDrRz

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) July 29, 2025

Also killed was a second security guard, Aland Etienne, and Rudin Management employee Julia Hyman, who was on the floor that the shooter arrived at when he apparently took the wrong elevator.

Hyman, a 2020 Cornell graduate, was shot when the gunman mistakenly took the elevator from the lobby to the 33rd-floor offices of Rudin Management, where she was an associate, according to the sources and her LinkedIn profile.

RIP: Also killed in the Midtown Manhattan shooting was Julia Hyman, 26, a 2020 Cornell University graduate and associate at Rudin Management, which owns the Park Avenue skyscraper where the attack occurred pic.twitter.com/XQxe7wVK5P

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 29, 2025

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has also issued a letter to league employees, as one NFL employee was shot and but is currently stable.

A staffer at the NFL’s headquarters in Manhattan was struck by a bullet during Monday’s shooting that killed four people, and continued to warn colleagues to evacuate the building while being transported in an ambulance, according to The Athletic.

Craig Clementi, who works in the league’s finance department, reportedly had been calling other NFL employees to warn them to avoid the building and escape, when a bullet pierced him in the back.

The report notes, “there is a belief” the bullet ricocheted before striking Clementi, who is said to have just welcomed a new baby.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told employees Monday in a letter that a staffer had been “seriously injured” in the fatal event, but did not identify the employee beyond saying the individual is male.

“He is currently in the hospital and in stable condition. NFL staff are at the hospital and we are supporting his family,” Goodell wrote in the message viewed by The Post, while adding “all of our employees are otherwise safe and accounted for.”

Nothing can be said or done to bring these four souls back to their loved ones, and the deranged shooter obviously did not care who he was murdering, even though he allegedly blamed the NFL for whatever mental problems he was having. Despite the impulses of some politicians, who ignore all the laws the shooter broke in the process of murdering people, now is not the time to grandstand. Politics will always be there. Evil cannot be reasoned with. Pray for those who are grieving, and for the recovery of those who were injured.

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