The shooting began at approximately 6:28 p.m. when Tamura entered the building's lobby and immediately opened fire on an NYPD officer and others present. Surveillance footage shows the gunman exiting a double-parked black BMW alone before entering the skyscraper, according to New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

"He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a pillar and proceeds through the lobby, spraying it with gunfire," Tisch stated during a news conference. The gunman continued to the elevator bank, where he shot a security guard taking cover behind his desk, before allowing a woman to exit an elevator unharmed and proceeding to the 33rd floor.

CNN described the Manhattan gunman, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, as "possibly white."

Tamura, clearly not white, took the life of an NYPD officer and at least four other innocent people on Monday in a Park Avenue building.

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 On the 33rd floor, occupied by Rudin Management, Tamura fired multiple rounds while walking the floor, killing one person before shooting himself fatally in the chest, according to police accounts reported by CNN. Retired NYPD Captain John Monaghan told CNN that the gunman's calm approach to the building suggested "he knew he was going to die" and "was at peace with that."

A suicide note found in Tamura's pocket revealed his grievances against the NFL and his belief that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease linked to head trauma. The handwritten note, scribbled across three pages, stated "Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of antifreeze" and "You can't go against the NFL, they'll squash you," according to a source with knowledge of the investigation cited by CNN. Terry Long, a former Pittsburgh Steelers player who was diagnosed with CTE, died by suicide after drinking antifreeze in 2005. Tamura's note also requested that his brain be studied and included an apology to someone named Rick, CNN reported.

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Multiple sources told CNN that Tamura had been a competitive football player in his youth. The gunman had "a documented mental health history," according to police statements, though his specific motives remain under investigation. A childhood friend of Tamura, who requested anonymity, told CNN he remembered the suspect as "a nice guy and a good athlete" and expressed shock at the development, saying he did not think it was something Tamura was capable of.

The attack timeline shows Tamura drove through Colorado on July 26, then through Nebraska and Iowa on July 27, before entering New York City around 4:24 p.m. on Monday, approximately two hours before the shooting began, according to police information.

Upon searching Tamura's vehicle, police discovered a loaded revolver, rifle case, ammunition, magazines, a backpack, and prescribed medication. No explosives were found. Tamura possessed a valid license to carry a weapon in Nevada, where obtaining such permits requires only proof of residency and absence of felony convictions or restraining orders, according to analysis provided to CNN.

The NYPD officer kiIIed tonight in Manhattan, Didarul Islam, leaves behind a wife and two young sons

Officer Islam's wife is also pregnant with their third child.

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 Among those killed was NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh who was working security at the building. Islam, described by officials as a hero, leaves behind two young sons and a pregnant wife expecting their third child. "He loved this city and everyone we spoke with stated he was a person of faith and a person that believed in God and believed in living out the life of a godly person," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said of Islam during a Monday news conference, according to CNN.

I'm on the way to the dignified transfer of fallen police officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in tonight's senseless mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan. He put his life on the line for all of us and died a hero. He and his family are in my prayers tonight, and I'm praying for… pic.twitter.com/UMMZYjwfSi

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One person who was shot survived and remains in critical but stable condition, while four additional victims received treatment for minor injuries sustained while fleeing the scene. An NFL employee was seriously injured but is stable, according to a staff memo from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, reported by CNN.

Eyewitnesses described hearing rapid gunfire and seeing people fleeing as the attack unfolded. "It felt like it was a quick two shots and then it was rapid fire," Nekeisha Lewis told the Associated Press, according to CNN's reporting. She described windows shattering and seeing a man run from the building, saying, "Help, help. I'm shot."

The 44-story building at 345 Park Avenue houses offices for the NFL, global investment firm Blackstone, tax and audit firm KPMG, and a Bank of America center. The NFL's corporate offices are located on the fifth floor of the building, which occupies an entire city block between 51st and 52nd Street.

The shooting represents the 254th mass shooting in the US this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive cited by CNN. The last time New York City experienced a mass shooting as deadly occurred in 2000, when two gunmen killed five people during a robbery at a Wendy's restaurant in Flushing, Queens.

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Authorities were investigating the possibility the shooting was a hate crime, working to confirm whether a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly beforehand was written by the man arrested in the attack on the 680,000-resident border city.

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El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said the suspect was arrested without police firing any shots outside the Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall, about five miles from the main border checkpoint with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Many of the victims were shot at the Walmart, according to police, who provided updates about the shooting in English and Spanish throughout the day.

"The scene was a horrific one," said Allen, adding that many of the 26 people who were hurt had life-threatening injuries.

The shooting came less than a week after a 19-year-old gunman killed three people and injured 13 others at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Residents quickly volunteered to give blood to the injured after the El Paso shooting, and police and military members were helping people look for missing loved ones.

"It's chaos right now," said Austin Johnson, an Army medic at nearby Fort Bliss, who volunteered to help at the shopping center and later at a school serving as a reunification center.

Adriana Quezada, 39, said she was in the women's clothing section of Walmart with her two children when she heard gunfire.

"But I thought they were hits, like roof construction," she said of the shots.

Her 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son threw themselves to the ground, then ran out of the store through an emergency exit. They were not hurt, Quezada said.

She said she saw four men, dressed in black, moving together firing guns indiscriminately. Police later said they believed the suspect, who was armed with a rifle, was the only shooter.

Ryan Mielke, a spokesman for University Medical Center of El Paso, said 13 of the injured were brought to the hospital with injuries, including one who died. Two of the injured were children who were being transferred to El Paso Children's Hospital, he said. He wouldn't provide additional details on the victims.

President Donald Trump tweeted: "God be with you all!"

At a candidate forum Saturday in Las Vegas, presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, appeared shaken after news of the shooting in his hometown was reported.

The Democrat said he heard early reports that the shooter might have had a military-style weapon, saying we need to "keep that [expletive] on the battlefield. Do not bring it into our communities."

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said police were investigating whether a document posted online shortly before the shooting was written by Crusius. In it, the writer expresses concern that an influx of Hispanics into the United States will replace aging white voters, potentially turning Texas blue in upcoming elections and swinging the White House to the Democrats.

The writer also is critical of Republicans for what he described as close ties to corporations and degradation of the environment. Though a Twitter account that appears to belong to Crusius included pro-Trump posts praising the plan to build more border wall, the writer of the online document says his views on race predated Trump's campaign and that any attempt to blame the president for his actions was "fake news."

Though the writer denied he was a white supremacist, the document says "race-mixing" is destroying the nation and recommends dividing the United States into territorial enclaves determined by race.

Margo said he knew the shooter was not from his town.

"It's not what we're about," he said at the news conference with Gov. Greg Abbott and the police chief. El Paso is nearly a 10-hour drive from Allen.

In the hours after the shooting, authorities blocked streets near a home in Allen associated with the suspect. Officers appeared to speak briefly with a woman who answered the door of the gray stone house and later entered the residence.

El Paso County is more than 80% Latino, according to the latest census data, and the city, where the mayor said tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross the border each day to work and shop, has become a focal point of the immigration debate. Trump visited in February to argue that walling off the southern border would make the US safer, while city residents and O'Rourke led thousands on a protest march past the barrier of barbed wire-topped fencing and towering metal slats.

O'Rourke stressed that border walls haven't made his hometown safer. The city's murder rate was less than half the national average in 2005, the year before the start of its border fence. Before the wall project started, El Paso had been rated one of the three safest major US cities going back to 1997.

Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, said the El Paso shooting suspect wasn't on her group's radar before the shooting.

"We had nothing in our files on him," Beirich wrote in an email.

The shooting is the 21st mass killing in the United States in 2019, and the fifth public mass shooting. Before Saturday, 96 people had died in mass killings in 2019 – 26 of them in public mass shootings.

The AP/USATODAY/Northeastern University mass murder database tracks all US homicides since 2006 involving four or more people killed, not including the offender, over a short period of time regardless of weapon, location, victim-offender relationship or motive. The database shows that the median age of a public mass shooter is 28, significantly lower than the median age of a person who commits a mass shooting of their family.

Since 2006, 11 mass shootings – not including Saturday's – have been committed by men who are 21 or younger.

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In his first court appearance, John T. Earnest pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder in the shooting that killed a worshipper and injured three others at the Chabad of Poway synagogue on the last day of Passover. He also pleaded not guilty to burning a mosque last month in nearby Escondido.

Earnest fired eight to 10 shots inside the synagogue near San Diego on Saturday, hitting Lori Kaye, 60, twice as she prayed in the foyer, prosecutors say. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein lost an index finger.

Then Earnest turned toward a room of children and some adults, where Almog Peretz tried to protect his niece and other kids, prosecutors said. He and his niece Noya Dahan, 8, suffered shrapnel wounds.

It was unclear if the weapon jammed or malfunctioned or if the gunman didn't know how to reload.

"Something happened to interrupt his use of that gun," San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan told reporters.

He fled, and several people pursued him, including an off-duty Border Patrol agent who fired at him but missed, striking his getaway car, authorities said. Earnest called 911 after fleeing the synagogue and reported his location, prosecutors said. A police officer pulled him over and arrested him without a struggle.

Earnest legally purchased the gun, Stephan said, declining to elaborate. She said he wore a tactical vest and carried five loaded magazines with 10 bullets each.

David Chipman, a retired agent of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, suggested the gunman might not have known what he was doing, and was unable to reload efficiently.

"I wish this was more common – that people fail," said Chipman, a senior policy analyst for the Giffords Center, an organization dedicated to fighting gun violence. "The reality is that with today's weapons, they are designed to not malfunction."

Earnest, wearing glasses and standing inside a glass cabin in court, showed no emotion as a prosecutor recounted Saturday's attack in Poway, a suburb north of San Diego. He spoke only once, acknowledging he was waiving his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, where prosecutors lay out their evidence.

Judge Joseph Brannigan denied bail and scheduled the hearing for July 8.

Earnest would be eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of murder that is classified as a hate crime, said Stephan, who met earlier in the day with the victim's family. She said she would decide soon whether to seek the death penalty.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom in March issued a moratorium on executions while he is in office.

The district attorney, who vowed to avoid identifying the Earnest by name, said the defendant expressed his "intent to harm Jews" in an online posting. He also acknowledged using gasoline to spark a blaze that charred a wall of the Escondido mosque and scrawling graffiti praising the gunman who killed 50 people at two New Zealand mosques last month, Stephan said.

Earnest was an accomplished student, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism stunned his family and others closest to him. He lived with his parents and made the dean's list both semesters last year as a nursing student at California State University, San Marcos.

Stephan said hate crimes are often preceded by hateful words.

"A whole world can come into the privacy of their bedroom and their families don't really see it," Stephan said, declining to discuss specifics of the case.

His father, John A. Earnest, is a popular physics teacher at the high school his son attended. The parents said their son and five siblings were raised in a family that "rejected hate and taught that love must be the motive for everything we do."

"To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries," the parents said Monday in their first public comments. "Our son's actions were informed by people we do not know, and ideas we do not hold."

Earnest frequented 8chan, a dark corner of the web where those disaffected by mainstream social media sites often post extremist, racist and violent views.

"I've only been lurking here for a year and a half, yet what I've learned here is priceless. It's been an honor," he wrote.

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