A 36-year-old Bronx officer was the first of four people killed in a shooting in Manhattan on Monday, including a security guard, real estate firm employee and investment firm executive.

NYC is mourning NYPD Officer Didarul Islam and three other people killed in Monday's shooting inside an office at 345 Park Avenue.

Live updates and developments about a shooting in New York City's Midtown. Five people, including the gunman and a police officer, are dead.

A gunman opened fire in a skyscraper in Manhattan on Monday (28 July) killing four people, before turning the gun on himself.

A New York City police officer and three other people were shot and killed inside a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday evening by a gunman armed with a high-powered rifle, police confirmed.The suspect,

Gun laws in the city have largely prevented the sort of mass slaughter common in the rest of America. The last killing of this scale in the city was at a fast-food restaurant in Queens in 2000.

Andrew Cuomo made his way across New York City’s five boroughs over the weekend stopping into public housing cookouts in Harlem, pouring rum behind a bar in Brooklyn and walking in the Colombian Day Parade in Queens.

Aland Etienne has been identified as one of the four victims killed in a mass shooting in New York City on July 28 that also left a police officer, Blackstone executive and 27-year-old woman dead.

Mayor Eric Adams on X: "Tonight, our city is reeling and four innocent families are mourning, including the family of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was killed at 345 Park Avenue. He represented the best of New York City, an immigrant from Bangladesh who put on a uniform to protect and serve us all."

Authorities are responding to a call of shots fired in a Midtown Manhattan office building, police told the BBC. A BBC News editor is near the scene. She reported seeing scores of police vehicles and at least one person with a bloodied chest being taken away.