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New York – 29 July 2025
1. Officials gathered for the vigil
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Adams, New York Mayor:
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"I worked as a mailroom, a stockroom assistant at 345 Park Avenue as a young man, and to have to walk through and see the remnants of violence of that level tore at me. And then I reflected on 2001, after the terrorist attack in the city, and a group of Muslims officers came to me, because they were being victimized because of the attack, because of their faith and belief. I joined them and we moved forward to start an organization that recruited Muslim officers to be part of the New York City Police Department.
3. Mid of faith leader praying
4. Vigil attendee holding a sign in remembrance of police officer Didarul Islam
5. Another vigil attendee holding a sign in remembrance of police officer Didarul Islam
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Adams, New York Mayor:
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"We cannot respond to senseless gun laws through vigils. It must be responded through legislation. It is time to turn the corner of a society where automatic weapons are as easy to get as a cell phone. We need to rethink who we are as a society, that there is a level of comfortability to carry an illegal weapon of this magnitude.
7. Various of flower arrangements
STORYLINE:
New York Mayor Eric Adams attended a multi-faith vigil on Tuesday evening for the four people who were shot dead inside a Manhattan office tower a day earlier.
“To have to walk through and see the remnants of violence at that level, tore at me,” Adams told mourners as he recalled working in the mailroom of the building as a young man.
Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and other faith leaders delivered prayers at the gathering held at a park about a dozen blocks from where the shooting took place.
Both Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke of the need for stronger gun laws. Hochul said guns designed to kill people on battlefields shouldn’t be in New York buildings.
“We cannot respond to senseless gun laws through vigils,” Adams said.
The gunman, who was named as Shane Tamura, blamed his mental health problems on the National Football League and intended to target its headquarters but took the wrong elevator, officials said Tuesday.
Tamura, a Las Vegas casino security worker, was carrying a handwritten note in his wallet that claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known at CTE, investigators said.
He accused the league of hiding the dangers of brain injuries linked to contact sports.
Tamura, 27, sprayed the skyscraper’s lobby with bullets then shot another person in a 33rd-floor office on Monday before he killed himself, authorities said.
Among the dead were a police officer, a security guard and two people who worked at companies in the building.
An NFL employee was badly wounded but survived.
AP video by Joseph Frederick
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