{"id":45392,"date":"2025-07-28T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:23:53","slug":"multiple-dead-including-gunman-in-manhattan-skyscraper-shooting-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45392","title":{"rendered":"Multiple dead, including gunman in Manhattan skyscraper shooting: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">MANHATTAN, N.Y. (<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/?p=4140160\"><u>WPIX<\/u><\/a>) \u2013 Three civilians and an off-duty NYPD officer were killed when an active shooter opened fire in a Manhattan skyscraper in Midtown Monday evening, sources told Nexstar\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/?p=4140160\"><u>WPIX<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The shooting took place in the lobby of Blackstone, the building that houses some of the country\u2019s top financial firms and the National Football League, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The suspect was identified as Shane Tamura, of Nevada, two people briefed on the investigation told the AP. Sources said he fatally shot himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Law enforcement officials located identification on Tamura\u2019s body, including a concealed carry permit from Las Vegas, the people said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The building was being evacuated as of 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At 7:13 p.m., Mayor Adams confirmed on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1949971560330059818\"><u>X<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;that an active shooter investigation was taking place in Midtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDPC\/status\/1949981438842941663\"><u>X<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;that the shooter had been neutralized: \u201cAt this time, the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The NYPD is urging pedestrians to avoid the area around East 52nd Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An individual was taken to a local hospital in cardiac arrest, according to an EMS source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5424620-multiple-people-shot-in-manhattan-skyscraper-active-shooter-investigation-ongoing-sources\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN, N.Y. (WPIX) \u2013 Three civilians and an off-duty NYPD officer were killed when an active shooter opened fire in a Manhattan skyscraper in Midtown Monday evening, sources told Nexstar\u2019s&nbsp;WPIX. The shooting took place in the lobby of Blackstone, the building that houses some of the country\u2019s top financial firms and the National Football League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2298,1530,7557],"class_list":["post-45392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-manhattan","tag-shooting","tag-skyscrapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45394,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions\/45394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}