At least five people died on Monday during a killing. The “lonely shooter”, who fatally killed four people, then probably killed himself, said the mayor of the city.
“We lost four souls in a new act of insane violence,” said Eric Adams at a late press conference in the evening.
Three men including a police officer, as well as a woman, were killed, while another individual is in critical condition, said officials, without mentioning a possible mobile at this stage.
The emergency services were called on Monday around 6:00 p.m. (10 p.m. GMT) in the Midtown Manhattan business district. The surveillance cameras filmed a man descending with a black car, armed with an assault rifle M-4. He then entered the building and immediately shot the policeman before “watering the hall” of bullets, reported the head of the New York police, Jessica Tisch.
The assailant had obviously decided to target the 345, Park Avenue, a large office building which houses premises of the Professional American Football League (NFL), the Blackstone finance giant and the KPMG consulting and audit firm, according to Ms. Tisch.
She said she thinks that the suspect, from Las Vegas and who presented history of psychiatric problems, had acted alone.
Several media, including CNN and the New York Post, show a photograph of a mustachioed man walking alone in the street with a long rifle in his right hand, dressed in sunglasses and a dark jacket. The suspect is called Shane Tamura and is 27 years old.
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Quickly, hundreds of police officers, some bearing bulletproof vests and heavy weapons, and many ambulances, arrived on the scene, noted an AFP journalist.
“I was in the building, it went from one floor to another,” a witness who refused to give his name to AFP. According to the New York Times, the shooter died on the 33rd floor.
Helicopters flew over this district of luxurious hotels and seats of large companies located a stone’s throw from Central Park.
Another shooting in Nedava
Three people were killed in a shooting in front of a casino in the American state of Nevada, according to local authorities. Two injured were transported to hospital in critical condition. The incident occurred on Monday morning (local time) in the city of Reno. The shooter was arrested and himself was injured. He was transported to hospital.
The culprit mobile remains unknown for the moment. Police initially had no reason to think that the suspect and the victims knew each other.
With more firearms in circulation than residents, the United States displayed the highest firearm mortality rate in all developed countries. The shootings are a recurring scourge that successive governments have so far failed to stem, many Americans remaining very attached to their arms.
Weapons are easily accessible in the United States and circulate in large numbers. According to CDC data, the American health authority, tens of thousands of people die each year from the follow -up injury. In children and young people, they constitute one of the main causes of death, before road accidents according to data from 2023. An in -depth reform of arms legislation has been blocked for years by republicans and the powerful weapon lobby.
