Victims of New York City shooting include a police officer and an executive at investment firm

He immigrated from Bangladesh to New York City and rose through the ranks of the biggest police department in the country.

Less than four years ago, Didarul Islam was promoted to patrol officer after serving as a school safety agent. However, that bright future was cut short on Monday.

Islam was slain in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper while on a uniformed security job by a shooter who was aiming for the NFL, which has its offices in the Park Avenue tower.

The 36-year-old Bronx cop was the first of four individuals slain in the incident, along with an executive from an investment firm, a security guard, and a real estate firm employee.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated on Tuesday that Officer Islam’s passing served as yet another reminder of the dangers you face simply by reporting for duty. He was aware of the danger. He accepted it. He knew what it meant to choose other people’s safety over his own.

One of the biggest investment businesses in the world, Blackstone, announced that Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director with a real estate focus, was one of the people shot and killed.

According to his trade union, security guard Aland Etienne was also killed.

At the request of family members, the Rudin family, who own the building and Rudin Management, announced in a statement that one of their employees was a victim of the shootings but did not reveal the individual’s name. According to police, a woman was discovered dead in Rudin’s offices on the 33rd level of the building.

In a note to employees, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated that a worker at the league’s headquarters was hospitalized with significant injuries but was in stable condition. He did not identify the individual. According to Goodell, every other league employee was safe.

The gunman, Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, was certain he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain condition that has been connected to concussions in contact sports but cannot be diagnosed until death, according to a note police obtained, according to Mayor Eric Adams. About ten years ago, he had played football in high school in California.

In anticipation of his burial, Islam’s flag-draped body was solemnly taken to a mosque in the Bronx on Tuesday. The street was lined with hundreds of his coworkers.

In the Muslim community, Mourners noted his strong work ethic, profound faith, and charity.

Islam was married, had two small sons, and was expecting a third. He had served in a Bronx precinct for three and a half years as a New York City police officer.

Visitors at Islam’s house provided food for the family members assembled there. A sign lauding Islam as a devoted parent and NYPD hero was put up across the street at a public school where one or more of his children were enrolled.

According to Tanjim Talukdar, who recalled Islam from Friday prayers at the mosque, he was a very amiable and diligent man. “How are you, my brother?” he asks whenever I see him or he sees me.

Sgt. Muhammad Islam, who is unrelated, stated that he recognized himself in his deceased comrade as a fellow father and a Bangladeshi immigrant. He claimed that both entered public service and so realized the American dream.

While working at the lobby security desk, where he watched over the bank of elevators leading to the upper levels, Aland Etienne, an unarmed building guard, was shot.

According to his brother, the family was in shock over the unexpected loss.

Gathmand Etienne posted on Facebook that he was more than just a brother; he was also a father, a son, and a source of light in our life. We are in need of your prayers and support as we go through this difficult period since our hearts are broken.

Etienne was praised by the president of the union that represented security personnel as a New York hero whose tragic passing served as a sobering reminder of the risk and sacrifice that came with his line of work.

According to the union, Etienne has been employed at the building since 2019 and has been a licensed unarmed security guard since 2017, with a previous assignment in 2017.

According to Manny Pastreich, president of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, security officers risk their lives each time they don their uniform. Despite frequently going unnoticed, their contributions to our community are vital.

According to the company, LePatner, 43, was the CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and the worldwide head of core plus real estate. After over ten years at Goldman Sachs, where she also handled real estate, she joined the company in 2014.

The firm stated she served on the boards of multiple organizations, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, after earning a bachelor’s degree in history with honors from Yale University in 2003. According to a company statement, she was intelligent, enthusiastic, kind, giving, and highly respected. Executives and other staff members expressed their sadness at her passing.

The family of LePatner expressed their sorrow and requested that their privacy be respected during their time of loss. Other families who lost loved ones in the tragedy were also given their sympathies.

They added in a statement that “we cannot adequately express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley.” She enhanced our lives in every way possible and was the most devoted wife, mother, daughter, sister, and relative.

In a Facebook post, author Bruce Feiler expressed his shock, sadness, and rage over LePatner’s passing. He said that they were on the same Yale board.

He stated, “At 43, she was the most impressive and effortless person, and you wanted to follow her wherever she went.” In every sense, she felt like the kind of leader we all need and want in these troubling times. She was a mentor to young women and a giving friend to everyone who knew her. She served on the board of her children’s Jewish day school and most recently joined the board of The Met.