THE crazed gunman who stormed into a Manhattan skyscraper during rush hour on Monday was believed to have been targeting the NFL headquarters, according to the New York City mayor.
Shane Tamura, 27, traveled cross-country from Las Vegas to Midtown Manhattan, where he exited his black BMW on Park Avenue and casually walked into the 634-foot building armed with an AR-15-style rifle and opened fire.
Upon entering the skyscraper, Tamura sprayed the lobby with bullets, fatally shooting a New York City police officer and two others.
Tamura then walked to one of the elevator banks got into an elevator after he spared a woman who had been inside, and took the lift to the 33rd floor.
There, Tamura shot and killed an Julia Hyman, a Cornell graduate who worked on the floor, before turning the gun on himself, the New York Post reported.
Mayor Eric Adams said that investigators have reason to believe the gunman was “focused on the NFL” and entered the wrong elevator bank.
“There are two different elevators banks. Some banks don’t go to every floor,” Adams said on Good Day New York on Tuesday.
“He appeared to have gone to the wrong bank, and he ended up on the floor of Rudin Management.”
The 44-floor skyscraper is an office building occupied by several companies, including the NFL‘s corporate headquarters, the investment giant Blackstone, and the building’s owner Rudin Management.
The NFL has offices on floors five through eight in the high-rise.