Crazed NYC gunman Shane Tamura chased and fired at helpless maid who miraculously escaped unscathed: ‘Sheer terror’
The crazed gunman behind the fatal rampage in a Midtown skyscraper chased and opened fire on a helpless maid who miraculously escaped unscathed, the NYPD’s chief of detectives revealed Wednesday — as he described the massacre as the worst crime scene he’s seen in 30 years.
The unidentified cleaner encountered the heavily-armed Shane Tamura as he stormed the mostly deserted 33rd floor of the Park Avenue office tower soon after spraying the lobby with bullets on Monday night.
“When he gets to the top floor, he sees a maid who has been there for years, beloved, just cleaning up and doing her job when everyone leaves,” John Chell, the chief of detectives, told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“He’s firing AR-15 rounds at her. The sheer terror. Thank God she got away — he made a right and she made a left.”
Moments later, he gunned down his last victim: Rudin Management employee, Julia Hyman, who worked on the floor.
“The crime scene was horrible. Thank God this didn’t happen a half hour earlier. There were minimal people,” Chell said.
“The crime scene, the video, in three decades of doing this was just horrible,” he added.
The psycho’s rampage only ended when he turned the gun on himself, authorities said.
The gunman was later found carrying a suicide note that revealed he’d targeted the NFL’s headquarters — because he believed himself to suffer a football-related brain injury.
How 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.”
He only ended up on the 33rd floor after mistakenly going up the wrong elevator banks in search of the NFL’s offices, according to authorities.
The other victims killed included NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, Blackstone exec Wesley LePatner and security guard Aland Etienne.