Police have recognized the person who entered a Midtown Manhattan workplace constructing sporting physique armor and opened fire killing 4 folks with a high-powered rifle, as Shane Devon Tamura.
The 27-year-old just lately lived in Las Vegas, the place he was issued a hid firearms allow by the Las Vegas Police Division. He was beforehand issued a piece card by the Nevada Non-public Investigators Licensing Board, which has since expired, in accordance with information reviewed by ABC Information. His final identified handle was in a gated neighborhood in Las Vegas.
A number of squad vehicles from Las Vegas Metro Police have convened at entrances to a gated neighborhood the place Tamura was believed to have lived.
Police work on the scene of a deadly taking pictures in midtown Manhattan on July 28, 2025 in New York Metropolis. An NYPD officer and a minimum of three others have been killed, with one other significantly injured within the assault inside an workplace constructing, in accordance with revealed studies. The 27-year-old suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top, the studies mentioned. (Picture by Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
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He accomplished highschool within the Los Angeles space, the place he was a aggressive soccer participant, in accordance to a faculty official who spoke with ABC Information. Caleb Clarke, a former classmate of Tamura at Santa Clarita Excessive College, described him as a “goofball” and didn’t recall him having any psychological well being points. Tamura performed as a operating again with Grenada Hills Constitution for a portion of his highschool profession.

Midtown Manhattan suspected shooter Shane Tamura.
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New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned Tamura had a “documented psychological well being historical past.” He just lately drove from Las Vegas to New York, and officers discovered further ammunition, a revolver, a backpack, and medicine inside his automobile.
The preliminary investigation exhibits his automobile traveled via Colorado on July 26, then Nebraska and Iowa on July 27, after which in Columbia, New Jersey, as just lately as 4:24 p.m. on Monday, along with his automobile getting into New York Metropolis shortly thereafter, Tisch mentioned.

A police officer and a civilian have been shot in Midtown Manhattan on Monday by a suspect who fled into an workplace constructing, police sources informed ABC Information.
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After getting into 345 Park Ave. and “spraying it with gunfire,” he took the elevator to the places of work of actual property administration agency Rudin Administration on the thirty third flooring, the place he shot and killed one further individual. Tamura was discovered useless from what’s believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers mentioned.
ABC Information has reached out to Rudin Administration for remark. Police haven’t recognized why he went to that flooring or if he has any connection to the corporate.
“His motives are nonetheless underneath investigation, and we’re working to know why he focused this specific location,” Tisch mentioned.