Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The terror and tragedy, yesterday, in Manhattan

Profiles from The New York Times, of those murdered Monday evening in the office building at 345 Park Avenue,

1.  New York City police officer Didarul Islam, 36 years old.  He was working, in his off-hours, to provide security for the building.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/officer-islam-nyc-shooting-family-friends.html?smid=url-share

2.  Wesley LePatner, 43 years old, a senior executive at the Blackstone company.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/blackstone-executive-wesley-lepatner-killed-nyc-shooting.html?smid=url-share

 3.  Aland Etienne, a security officer at the building, 46 years old.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/nyc-shooting-victim-security-guard-aland-etienne.html?smid=url-share.

All three were killed in the building's lobby.

4. Julia Hyman, 27, an associate at the Rudin Management real estate company, the company which managed the building.  She was shot and killed on the building's 33rd floor.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/julia-hyman-cornell-nyc-shooting-victim.html?smid=url-share

Another man was also shot, but survived.  The Washington Post has reported the following: 

Craig Clementi, an NFL employee who works in the league’s finance department [at the building], was injured...a person with knowledge of the situation said. His father-in-law, Robert Hunter, told the New York Daily News that Clementi “was on his way home when he got shot.”

He “came through the surgery and there was some spinal damage,” but he is “doing well,” Hunter said. Clementi is expected by doctors to recover from his injuries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A USA Today report also said this: "The belief is that the bullet may have ricocheted before striking Clementi."

The gunman, it has been reported, killed himself on the building's 33rd floor, after killing Julia Hyman.