Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed the mass shooting at a Park Avenue office building while at his family’s private compound in Uganda, where he is celebrating his wedding.
“I’m heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts,” Mamdani wrote in a post to X.
“Grateful for all of our first responders on the ground,” he concluded.
Zohran Mamdani addressed the mass shooting at a Park Avenue office building while at his family’s private compound in Uganda. Getty ImagesHow the shooting unfolded
- Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 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 lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allows a woman to walk out of the elevators unharmed before heading up to the 33rd floor, where building owner Rudin Properties’ offices are located, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
- One woman is shot and killed on that floor before Tamura shoots himself in the chest.
- It’s unclear how long 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.”
Mamdani is in Uganda celebrating his nuptials at a heavily guarded private compound in the wealthy Buziga Hill area outside the capital city, Kampala.
Police said four people were shot dead — including married 36-year-old police officer Didarul Islam — when maniac Shane Tamura barged into the 44-story building in Midtown with an assault rifle around 6:30 p.m.
A fifth person was also shot and injured. And four more sustained minor injuries while trying to flee, cops said.
Suspected mass shooter Shane Tamura in high school. DailyNews PrepSports
Police and others gather at a crime scene in Midtown Manhattan after people, including a police officer, were shot inside an office building on July 28, 2025, in New York City. Getty ImagesTamura, 27, of Nevada, shot himself in the chest and was found dead on the 33rd floor.
