Funeral for NYPD Officer Didarul Islam slain in Park Ave. mass shooting set for Thursday

Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Jul 30, 2025

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NEW YORK — The funeral for NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, one of the four people killed in a mass shooting in a Midtown Park Ave. skyscraper, will be held Thursday morning in a Bronx mosque.

Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday went to the 47th Precinct stationhouse where Islam worked to attend morning roll call and talk to cops mourning their colleague’s death.

Services for Islam will be at Parkchester Jame Masjid at 1203 Virginia Ave. There will be a viewing for female mourners at 10 a.m. followed by a viewing for men from 11 a.m. Private services will then begin at noon.

A dignified transfer of Officer Islam’s body to the mosque from the city Medical Examiner’s office was held Tuesday evening.

Didarul, a father of two with a baby on the way, was shot to death Monday by Shane Tamura in the lobby of the Midtown high-rise.

When he heard that his son was dead, Islam’s father had a minor stroke and needed to be hospitalized, grieving relatives said.

Islam had been a cop since 2021 and was assigned to the 47th Precinct in the Bronx.

He was in uniform working a paid security detail in the building at E. 51st St. authorized by the NYPD when Tamura stormed inside with an M-4 assault rifle about 6:30 p.m. Monday and started firing.

Tamura, a resident of Las Vegas, killed three civilians and wounded a fourth before getting lost in the building and taking his own life, officials said.

In a three-page suicide note found tucked in his wallet, Tamura blamed the NFL for giving him CTE, a brain injury often linked to playing football, although he only played high school football and had no nexus to the National Football League, the NYPD said.

The NFL has headquarters on several floors in the building Tamura targeted.