DEADLY JOURNEY
New details emerged Tuesday about the gunman’s bloody attack and final journey.
Authorities said he had driven across the country from Nevada and stopped outside the skyscraper in a black BMW, carrying a rifle.
He killed a police officer immediately, then began “spraying the lobby” with bullets, Tisch said.
A female bystander and a security guard were hit, Adams said, explaining that this prevented anyone pushing a panic button that would have stopped the elevators from working.
As the guard “attempted to hide himself behind the counter, he was killed as well, and the suspect then took the elevator upstairs,” Adams said.
“If he was able to get to the button, he could have froze the elevator.”
One of the victims shot was an NFL employee, who was “seriously injured” but stable in hospital, league commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement to employees.
But while his target was determined to be the NFL offices, Tamura “took the wrong elevator,” Adams said, ending up on the 33rd floor, which houses the building’s management. He murdered one person there and then shot himself in the chest.
Adams said the fallen police officer was a 36-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh.
Office worker Shad Sakib told AFP that he was preparing to leave work when a public address announcement warned him and his colleagues to shelter in place. “Everyone was confused,” he said.
There have been 254 mass shootings in the United States this year including Monday’s in New York, according to the Gun Violence Archive – which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.
