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But on Monday evening, Islam, who was regularly assigned to the 47th Precinct in the Bronx, was gunned down by an armed suspect identified as Shane Tamura, as the officer was dong a paid detail shift at 34d Park Avenue, a skyscraper home to several large New York City corporations.
No motive has been announced. A suicide note was found expressing grievances with the NFL and saying Tamura suffered from CTE, a source said. Follow for live updates.
An NYPD officer was “protecting New Yorkers from danger” when he lost his life in a violent rampage in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. Didarul Islam was one of four victims fatally shot by a lone gunman who barged into the 44-story building and opened fire on Monday,
NYPD officers were trying to break up a fight between a group of teens near Nathan's when at least two suspects began punching and assaulting them.
Yohenry Brito, 24, of Venezuela, was among a group of about seven men, all migrants, involved in the assault and subsequent melee.