MANHATTAN, N.Y. (WPIX) – Five people were shot, four fatally – including an off-duty NYPD officer – when a man carrying a long gun opened fire in a Manhattan skyscraper in Midtown Monday evening, officials said.

The officer who was killed was Didarul Islam, 36, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had served as a police officer in New York City for 3 1/2 years.

“He died as he lived. A hero,” police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. He was married with two young boys, and his wife is pregnant with their third child, she said.

Police said the suspect, identified as Shane Tamura, of Nevada, shot and killed himself.

"We are still unraveling what took place," said Adams. "Five innocent people were shot tonight. We lost four souls to another senseless act of gun violence, inc

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