NYPD cop killed in mass shooting at Park Ave. building honored with Bronx street renaming

A police officer and father who was killed in an NYC mass shooting while working at a Park Avenue building nearly a year ago was honored at a street renaming Saturday in The Bronx. Didarul Islam Way was unveiled at a ceremony at E.172nd Street and Beach Avenue in Soundview attended by the slain officer’s family and friends, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and other NYPD officials. “By placing Didar’s name on this street in his family’s neighborhood in the Bronx, New York is making him part of the landscape of the city he chose as his home and devoted himself to serving,” Tisch said in a post on X after the event. “Once a person’s name is placed in our community, that life becomes part of the story New York tells about itself,” her post reads.

“Didarul Islam earned that place in our story.”The 36-year-old police officer was working a security detail in uniform at 345 Park Ave.in Midtown Manhattan when a gunman walked into the lobby carrying an assault rifle and opened fire on July 28, 2025, striking him with the first fatal shot.The gunman, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura, killed four people with an AR-15-style rifle.

He then fatally shot himself.Investigators determined he was targeting the NFL because he thought he was suffering from the football-related brain injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE.An autopsy later found that he actually was suffering from the condition.

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The cop was posthumously promoted to Detective First Grade. Islam’s wife, who was pregnant when he was killed and had a son a short time later, attended the event with her three young sons. “May Didarul Islam Way always remind us of his devotion to New York and to the family at the center of his life,” Tisch ...