{"id":106721,"date":"2025-07-31T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106721\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:13:09","slug":"nyc-shooting-victim-julia-hyman-made-it-into-panic-room-before-she-stepped-out-and-was-immediately-gunned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106721\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC shooting victim Julia Hyman made it into panic room before she stepped out and was immediately gunned down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midtown mass shooting victim Julia Hyman<\/a> had made it into a fortified panic room at 345 Park Ave. when gunman Shane Tamura started blasting apart her office, but stepped out for a moment and was \u201cimmediately\u201d gunned down, according to a tragic new timeline of the deadly rampage. <\/p>\n

Hyman, a 27-year-old employee of Rudin Management<\/a>, dashed into a panic room hidden in a 33rd-floor bathroom Monday evening as Tamura stepped out of the elevator and began firing off an assault rifle, officials familiar with the investigation told The Post.<\/p>\n

The panic room was fitted with a ballistic door, locking bolts, a hard-wired phone, and even a live camera feed looking out on the hall, officials said. <\/p>\n

Midtown mass shooting victim Julia Hyman was in a panic room at 345 Park Ave. as Shane Tamura fired shots at the Rudin office, but she stepped out briefly and was \u201cimmediately\u201d gunned down. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Tamura, 27,<\/a> had fired through a glass wall after stepping off the elevator and kicked through the broken glass to get inside the Rudin offices and then began spraying bullets through glass office doors and walls.<\/p>\n

He fired at a female cleaner who was pushing a garbage cart through the hall, but missed as she ran away. <\/p>\n

There was a brief pause in the gunfire and then \u2014 for reasons unclear \u2014 Hyman stepped out of the bathroom panic room, and was instantly shot by Tamura, officials said.<\/p>\n

Wounded, the Cornell grad crawled to a desk, reached out for a phone, and collapsed.<\/p>\n

Officials reported that Hyman was in the panic room located on the 33rd floor, which had a ballistic door, locking bolts, a hard-wired phone, and even a live camera feed looking out on the hall. JuliaHyman\/linkedin<\/p>\n

Moments later, Tamura pointed the gun at his own chest and pulled the trigger, killing himself.<\/p>\n

The heartbreaking details come from a timeline pieced together<\/a> using witness statements and security footage from inside the building, which housed offices of the NFL headquarters that Tamura is believed to have been targeting. <\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the latest on the NYC mass shooting:<\/p>\n

The shooting play-by-play also revealed that Tamura grew \u201cvisibly angry\u201d when he saw the Rudin Management logo after stepping off the elevator onto the wrong floor. <\/p>\n

Despite realizing he was not on the NFL HQ floor and Hyman was not one of his intended targets, he still killed the young employee who had worked at Rudin for less than a year. <\/p>\n

Tamura\u2019s rampage began when he stormed the building\u2019s lobby at 6:27 p.m. after pulling his assault rifle from his BMW, which he\u2019d double-parked outside the Midtown tower.<\/p>\n

After shots were fired, and briefly stopped by Tamura \u2014 for reasons unclear \u2014 Hyman stepped out of the room and was then shot by the gunman, before succumbing to her injuries. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

Investigators believe that Tamura was targeting the NFL headquarters, which also has offices at 345 Park Ave.<\/p>\n

Once inside, he immediately started shooting up the lobby, and gunned down NYPD officer Didarul Islam<\/a>, 36, as he sat behind the front desk in full uniform, police said.<\/p>\n

By then, security guard Aland Etienne<\/a>, 46, started running for the building\u2019s elevator lockdown panel, but Tamura shot him too.<\/p>\n

Etienne still desperately tried to reach the lockdown panel and crawled bloodied across the lobby floor, but collapsed before he could make it.<\/p>\n

\tHow the shooting unfolded<\/p>\n