A Nationwide Soccer League worker injured within the mass taking pictures at a Midtown workplace constructing final yr has sued New York Metropolis for $24 million — boldly claiming the slain off-duty cop’s negligence allowed the gunman to storm the constructing and perform the lethal spree.
Craig Clementi, who labored within the NFL’s finance division, was severely injured after he was shot within the again by deranged gunman Shane Tamura on the Park Avenue skyscraper on July 28, 2025.
In a civil lawsuit filed within the Manhattan Supreme Court docket final week, Clementi stated that NYPD Detective Didarul Islam did not cease Tamura, 27, from wounding him and killing 4 different individuals, together with Islam, within the bloody bloodbath, the New York Each day Information reported.
Islam was working in uniform at 345 Park Ave. as a part of the NYPD’s “paid element” safety program when Tan armed amura strolled into the constructing.
“Detective Islam…did not establish a visual impending safety risk and took no motion to thwart or mitigate stated risk, together with whereas the risk was in view for an prolonged time period previous to the assault,” a discover of declare that accompanies the lawsuit states, in accordance with the outlet.
The go well with claims that Islam breached a particular responsibility he needed to shield individuals within the constructing by failing to note the gunman stroll roughly 100 ft throughout its outside plaza whereas carrying an M4 assault rifle in plain sight.
It isn’t clear if Islam, who was standing on the foyer entrance, noticed the gunman earlier than bullets flew.
“In brief, the video proof offers a very good religion foundation to claim that Detective Islam’s inattentiveness and negligence allowed the gunman to stroll throughout the constructing’s plaza with a visual assault rifle and into the constructing; all with out the gunman being detected, deterred, confronted, neutralized and with out constructing/foyer occupants being warned of the approaching hazard,” the lawsuit argues.
Clementi “was shot in shut vary” in his facet and decrease again, round 10 ft away from Islam, the Each day Information reported.
The go well with alleges that regardless of the “grievous gunshot wound,” the NFL staffer was capable of escape by the constructing’s shattered revolving door earlier than finding NYPD officers close by and calling 911.
He lay bleeding on a sidewalk earlier than being rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Middle, the place he was put within the Intensive Care Unit and had surgical procedure to take away bullet fragments.
Clementi suffered a lumbar fracture and was hospitalized for 10 days and required “residence wound care nursing and bodily remedy” after being discharged, one doc within the go well with states.
“I bear everlasting depressed scars from the wound and I expertise ache day by day,” Clementi wrote in an connected submitting, the outlet reported.
“For the reason that taking pictures, I’ve additionally suffered from extreme psychological trauma, together with a number of each day flashbacks to the incident, hypervigilance, and vital disruption to my each day life {and professional} actions.”
Clementi is looking for $24 million in damages from town.
Whereas Islam was technically off-duty from the NYPD whereas working as personal safety, the lawsuit argues that town may be held liable within the case as his duties “stay throughout the Metropolis’s management.”
This system permits personal firms to pay for off-duty safety work by NYPD officers whereas of their uniforms.
Detective Islam, who lived within the Bronx and was assigned to the forty seventh Precinct, had served on the pressure for 4 years.
Within the aftermath of the taking pictures, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch praised the 36-year-old off-duty cop, who was a Bangladeshi immigrant and father of three.
The household of 27-year-old Cornell College graduate Julia Hyman, who was one of many 4 individuals killed within the horrific Midtown taking pictures spree, additionally plans to sue town for $65 million — claiming police “totally and fully” did not cease the crazed gunman earlier than he stormed into the constructing, The Put up beforehand reported.
Whereas Tamura’s motive for the bloody bloodbath stays beneath investigation, it’s believed that he meant to focus on the NFL places of work earlier than taking pictures himself.
In a suicide word, he made reference to persistent traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a standard mind situation in soccer gamers and a autopsy “discovered unambiguous diagnostic proof” of CTE.
