An AR-15 blood-dirty semi-automatic rifle. The body of the killer lying along the corridor of a desert office. And that chilling image of the murderer, while quietly, at 6.30 pm, in the top hour of the exit from the offices, starts towards a skyscraper of Park Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan, an area manned by the police, tightening the rifle in his hand.
Shortly after Shane Tamura, 27, from Las Vegas, a former Canadian Football player, he developed the massacre: he entered the crowded lobby of the skyscraper that hosts the Blackstone offices, one of the largest investment companies in the world, and the NFL headquarters, the American Football League.
Tamura shot and killed the policeman who was of service at the entrance. The victim is a 36 -year -old agent, married. In a month he would become a father. Tamura then coldly took the elevator and went up. He arrived at the thirty -sixth floor of the forty -four of the skyscraper, where, among others, the offices of Rudin Management are located, the company owned by the skyscraper. Tamura fired again, killing four other people and seriously injuring six, then he took his life, perhaps using the same rifle, perhaps with another weapon.
At the moment the police failed to find a motive. Tamura had a regular weapons obtained in Nevada, and expiring 2027, but had brought the rifle with it illegally, because in the New York state it is forbidden to turn with that type of AR-15. The weapon, found next to the killer’s body, is an Armory Ar-15 State Place, a low-cost and easily available automatic rifle, to which Tamura would have made some changes to increase the firepower.
New York, as tourists also know well, is one of the most manned cities by the police, and Manhattan is the armored heart of America. But a man, at 6.30 pm, in full light, was able to walk armed and approach the skyscraper to score his criminal plan, without anyone being able to stop him.