Corporate Offices Targeted In Deadly NYC Shooting
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the now-deceased shooting suspect likely targeted the NFL's ... More office in Blackstone's building.
A shooting in New York City's Midtown neighborhood shocked working Manhattanites on Monday evening. The shooter, who police identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, killed four—including a Blackstone executive and an NYPD officer who was working security in the building—before taking his own life.
Here's what we know about the Blackstone executive: Wesley LePatner was the CEO of the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), the company's real estate fund that totals more than $53 billion in property. LePatner joined the firm in 2014 after working for more than a decade at Goldman Sachs.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the shooter was likely targeting the offices of the National Football League, which share a building with Blackstone.
It's not the first corporate shooting in the streets of Manhattan in recent memory. In December, UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was shot outside a company meeting.
That shooting led a number of companies to increase private security for their executives, with many security firms seeing an influx of business requests from the ultra-wealthy. Some are also scrubbing executives' personal information from the internet, using online services to remove phone numbers, addresses and children's names, according to DeleteMe CEO Rob Shavell.
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