The New York Shooting Gets Weirder and Gets a Bit Surreal

It appears that the shooter was targeting the National Football League over some grievance about the disgraceful actions of the league regarding chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is odd, since the gunman never played in the NFL

He got into the wrong elevator, and ended up on the wrong floor, and started shooting.

The gunman who killed four people and himself at a Midtown Manhattan tower on Monday was targeting the National Football League’s office, but ended up on the floor of another company by mistake, according to two senior law enforcement officers.

Instead of going to the NFL’s fifth-story office at 345 Park Avenue, he picked the elevator bank that took him to building owner Rudin Management’s office on the 33rd floor, the officers said. That’s where the body of the shooter, believed to be Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old who last resided in Las Vegas, was found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Here comes the surreal bit, one of the victims was the chief executive of the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Wesley LePatner, who has been instrumental in hiking rents around the nation. (I mean her personally, not just Blackstone in general)

This appears to be the f%$#ing universe going Luigi Mangione on a corrupt business executive:

Four people have been killed at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan after a gunman entered the tower, which houses private equity manager Blackstone, as well as the NFL, real estate firm Rudin Management and KPMG, among others.

Among those killed by a lone gunman who was reportedly targeting the NFL, was Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner, 43, who was recently named chief executive of the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT).

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LePatner joined Blackstone in 2014, having previously worked at Goldman Sachs. She was global head of its core plus real estate business and CEO of BREIT, the firm’s $53bn non-traded real estate investment trust. She was appointed to the role in August of last year, ahead of the retirement of Frank Cohen, who she replaced in the position at the start of 2025.

I have on a number of occasions said semi-humerously that if you are going to engage in a workplace shooting, start with upper management.

It appears that the universe has listened. 

A few more of these, and we might start to see meaningful gun control legislation.