NEW YORK: An individual who opened hearth inside a midtown Manhattan skyscraper housing the Nationwide Soccer League headquarters and workplaces of a number of main monetary establishments, together with hedge fund big Blackstone, has been “neutralised”, the New York Metropolis police commissioner mentioned on Monday (Jul 28).
Police didn’t instantly make particulars of the capturing public, however a regulation enforcement supply instructed Reuters that at the very least one New York Police Division officer and two civilians had been struck by gunfire and that the suspect was believed to be lifeless.
The supply mentioned the data was preliminary, and the situation or extent of accidents sustained by the police officer and two others was not instantly recognized.
The New York Submit newspaper, citing unnamed police sources, reported {that a} gunman carrying a bullet-resistant vest and carrying an AR-style rifle had opened hearth contained in the Park Avenue skyscraper, wounding a police officer and a bystander. The Submit reported they had been in important situation.
The gunman, the Submit reported, had barricaded himself contained in the workplace tower, probably on the thirty second ground of the constructing.
A short while later, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Disch mentioned on X: “Right now, the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralised.”