The father of NYPD police officer Didarul Islam, who was gunned down by the crazed mass shooter in Manhattan on Monday evening, was so upset by the news of his son’s death that he suffered a stroke.
Islam’s wife, who is pregnant, was also rushed to the hospital upon hearing the news, his cousin told the New York Post.
“They are all crying,” cousin Muhammad Mainul Islam said of the family. “There is no brother — only him. The family is really feeling a big problem. His wife had the doctor’s appointment. I heard one police officer from the precinct, she took [her] to the hospital.”
The cousin added, “His father went last night to see him. When he heard the message, he had a stroke, feeling bad. So he had a stroke so the hospital did not release him.”
The officer was among four innocent victims brutally murdered by a deranged gunman who drove cross-country from Las Vegas to target the NFL headquarters in a high-rise building on Park Avenue.
The killer, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, had planned to attack the NFL’s headquarters in what appears to be a twisted vendetta over his diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease associated with repeated head injuries in football players.
According to reports, Tamura stormed the 44-story tower at 345 Park Avenue around 6:30 p.m., firing indiscriminately and claiming the lives of Islam, who was working as a security guard at the time, a Blackstone executive in the lobby, and another individual in the offices of Rudin Management after taking an elevator upstairs.
Tamura reportedly did not make it to the NFL headquarters, as he took the wrong elevator and ended up in the management office instead.
The maniac then turned the rifle on himself, committing suicide, and leaving behind a suicide note that bizarrely thanked a CTE documentary and named prominent neuroscientists.
The NYPD and city officials have expressed condolences, with ongoing investigations into the shooter’s motives and background.
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