Transcript: Mayor Adams Appears Live on Rocanews’ Instagram Live | City of New York

July 29, 2025 Max Towey: Our first question is, what do we know right now about the shooting? Mayor Eric Adams: There’s a couple of things that we have information on, and a couple of leads that we are following. We know that the person who carried out the act, we know he’s from Las Vegas, he drove across town in our city yesterday with one intention based on what we’re seeing, and that is to inflict violence, and everyone he came in contact with, he either shot or attempted to shoot, except for one person.  He was entering the elevator, a person came off the elevator. He did not shoot her and ignored her, as she was able to exit the building. But he wreaked havoc, took the lives of [four] people. One of them is himself, he [was] shot. One person is holding on for his life right now. But it was a clear act of violence that we have not witnessed in this city in many, many years, and our heart goes out to Officer Islam and all of the victims of this shooting.  We know the gun. There were two guns in his possession. One gun
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