NFL employee injured in Park Avenue mass shooting sues NYC for $24M over failure to stop gunman

A National Football League employee injured in the mass shooting at a Midtown office building last year has sued New York City for $24 million — boldly claiming the slain off-duty cop’s negligence allowed the gunman to storm the building and carry out the deadly spree.Craig Clementi, who worked in the NFL’s finance department, was severely injured after he was shot in the back by deranged gunman Shane Tamura at the Park Avenue skyscraper on July 28, 2025. In a civil lawsuit filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court last week, Clementi said that NYPD Detective Didarul Islam failed to stop Tamura, 27, from wounding him and killing four other people, including Islam, in the bloody massacre, the New York Daily News reported. Islam was working in uniform at 345 Park Ave.as part of the NYPD’s “paid detail” security program when Tan armed amura strolled into the building.

“Detective Islam…failed to identify a visible impending security threat and took no action to thwart or mitigate said threat, including while the threat was in view for an extended period of time prior to the attack,” a notice of claim that accompanies the lawsuit states, according to the outlet. The suit claims that Islam breached a special duty he had to protect people in the building by failing to notice the gunman walk roughly 100 feet across its outdoor plaza while carrying an M4 assault rifle in plain sight.It is not clear if Islam, who was standing at the lobby entrance, saw the gunman before bullets flew. “In short, the video evidence provides a good faith basis to assert that Detective Islam’s inattentiveness and negligence allowed the gunman to walk across the building’s plaza with a visible assault rifle and into the building; all without the gunman being detected, deterred, confronted, neutralized and without building/lobby occupants being warned of the approaching danger,” the lawsuit argues. Clementi “was shot in close range” in his side and lower back, around ...