Park Avenue shooting victim Julia Hyman was killed right after leaving panic room

Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News on Jul 31, 2025

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NEW YORK — The last of the Park Avenue mass shooter’s final victims was in temporary safety in a panic room, only to be killed when she stepped outside of it during a lull in the gunfire, police sources and authorities said.

Initially, it was believed that the victim, Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman, 27, may have thought the gunman, Shane Tamura, had left the area, the sources said.

However, now police say that Hyman simply had gone to the bathroom, had not heard shots being fired and was unaware of Tamura before she fatefully stepped back out into the office.

The shooter was nearby, the sources said, having moments earlier fired his assault-style rifle at a cleaner he first encountered when he blasted his way into the 33rd-floor office.

The sources said the 27-year-old shooter can be seen on video turning toward Hyman when he heard her step out from the bathroom that houses the secured panic room.

After Hyman was struck by gunfire, she stumbled to a cubicle, collapsed in a chair and died, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry said.

According to authorities, Tamura — who believed he suffered from traumatic brain injury from playing high school football — had meant to shoot up the National Football League’s offices, which are in the same high-rise building but on lower floors. He mistakenly took an elevator that did not stop at the NFL’s floors, instead winding up on the 33rd floor.

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