Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul join faith leaders at Bryant Park vigil day after deadly NYC skyscraper shooting

Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul joined multi-faith leaders alongside hundreds of mourners at Bryant Park Tuesday night for a prayer vigil honoring the four victims killed during madman Shane Tamura’s rampage at a Midtown skyscraper.

“This senseless act of violence, as the police commissioner and I walked through the building, we saw the blood trails and the videos. And the level of violence … I have not witnessed at that level before,” Adams said during the somber ceremony.

“We need our faith community at this moment to do something that is more powerful than any legislative agenda. And that is prayer,” the mayor added.

NYPD officer Didarul Islam, security guard Aland Etienne, Blackstone executive Wesley Lepatner and Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman were all shot and killed by Tamura on Monday night at 345 Park Ave. before he turned the gun on himself…

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