Who Is Shane Devon Temura? What We Know About The Nyc Shooting Suspect

A Nevada man who precocious drove crossed nan state to New York and has a intelligence wellness history is accused of stepping into a Manhattan building pinch a firearm and opening occurrence Monday evening, sidesplitting 4 people, constabulary said.

Shane Devon Tamura, 27, went into 345 Park Ave. successful midtown conscionable aft nan extremity of business Monday equipped pinch an M4 firearm and opened occurrence successful nan lobby, and again connected nan 33rd floor, earlier yet sidesplitting himself, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Authorities person said they are moving to find a motive for nan attack.

Police officers and emergency vehicles respond to a shooting incident successful Midtown Manhattan, N.Y., connected Monday.John Lamparski / AFP via Getty Images

“According to our rule enforcement partners successful Las Vegas, Mr. Tamura has a documented intelligence wellness history,” Tisch said. “His motives are still nether investigation.”

Officer Didarul Islam, 36, who was moving a information occupation astatine nan building, was 1 of nan 4 group killed successful nan attack. The different victims person not been identified.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and City officials clasp a property convention astatine nan David H. Koch Center pursuing a shooting successful Midtown Manhattan, N.Y., connected Monday.John Lamparski / AFP via Getty Images

Suspect had driven crossed nan country

Tamura has a Las Vegas address, and nan BMW that he sewage retired of successful Manhattan is registered to him successful Nevada.

Inside nan vehicle, investigators recovered a firearm lawsuit pinch rounds, ammunition magazines and a loaded revolver, Tisch said.

Also recovered was medicine prescribed to him, Tisch said. She did not opportunity what benignant of medicine aliases its purpose.

Tamura's conveyance was very precocious driven crossed nan country, officials said.

It went done Colorado connected July 26, past Nebraska and Iowa connected July 27, and it was successful Columbia, New Jersey, arsenic precocious arsenic 4:24 p.m. Monday, nan time of nan shooting — and entered New York City soon thereafter, Tisch said.

California schoolhouse teammates, coach are shocked

Tamura attended precocious schoolhouse successful Southern California, wherever he was a shot player, according to his erstwhile teammates, who said they were stunned to study he was a fishy successful nan shooting.

“You ne'er would person thought unit was thing you’d subordinate pinch him,” erstwhile classmate Caleb Clarke said. “Everything he said was a joke.”

Tamura had transferred to Granada Hills Charter School successful Granada Hills, a vicinity successful Los Angeles, successful 2015 erstwhile he was a senior, coming from a schoolhouse successful Santa Clarita, Clarke said.

Clarke indicated that nan brace mislaid touch but reconnected done societal media precocious and that Tamura worked astatine a Las Vegas casino.

Former coach Walter Roby said Tamura was a talented moving backmost and “a awesome player” who was “real elusive, existent agile.”

“He came in, worked hard, kept his chemoreceptor down,” Roby added. “He was a quiet kid, well-mannered, very coachable. Whatever needed to beryllium done, he would do.”

Roby said he was shocked that Tamura was suspected of carrying retired a wide shooting.

“I’m conscionable blown distant correct now,” he said.

A erstwhile Granada Hills teammate, Anthony Michael Leon, said he and his aged shot buddies person been texting 1 different successful disbelief since they learned that Tamura was identified arsenic nan gunman.

“This is truthful shocking,” said Leon, 25. “I’m telling you, this was 1 of those kids who ne'er exerted bad power aliases a antagonistic attitude.”

He said Tamura was successful nan school’s virtual program, which meant that he took classes online and was only successful schoolhouse a mates times a week extracurricular of nan shot season.

But Tamura excelled connected nan section and led mostly by example, Leon said.

“He was quiet, but erstwhile he did really talk, group listened,” Leon said.

Leon said he remembered Tamura earning all-conference honors, but Tamura didn’t look to harbor ambitions to play successful assemblage aliases nan NFL.

“I knew truthful galore kids successful precocious schoolhouse who made it clear that’s each they wanted to do,” Leon said. “I ne'er sewage that from Shane.”

Why this location?

Tisch said surveillance video showed nan shooter get retired of a double-parked achromatic BMW while carrying an M4 rifle.

“The building information camera footage shows nan shooter participate nan lobby, move right, and instantly unfastened occurrence connected an NYPD officer,” Tisch said.

The gunman past changeable a female taking screen down a pillar and fired astatine others earlier taking an elevator to nan 33rd floor, wherever he opened occurrence again and killed different person, she said.

A motive successful nan shooting was nether investigation.

“We are moving to understand why he targeted this peculiar location,” Tisch said.

Tenants of nan building wherever nan shooting took spot see nan National Football League, Rudin Management, KPMG and Blackstone.

The constabulary serviceman and different antheral were killed, arsenic were 2 females, Tisch said.

The subsister who was changeable was a antheral who was astatine a infirmary successful captious but unchangeable information Monday night, Tisch said. Four others suffered insignificant injuries while trying to flee, she said.