Last updated: Aug 7, 2025

Luigi Redux: Fear Grips Manhattan Bankers After Top Landlord Killed

The CEO of Blackstone Real Estate was assassinated. Is mainstream media downplaying the story?

A Mass Shooting in Manhattan

27 year-old Shane Tamura opened fire at 345 Park Avenue, a massive skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan.
Police and mainstream media have given conflicting reports on Tamura’s motives, though there has been much speculation about his concussions from playing high school football and the NFL’s offices being located in the building.
Tamura’s victims: A cop, a security guard, an office worker, and Wesley LaPatner, the CEO of a massive Blackstone subsidiary.

Blackstone controls over $1 Trillion in various assets.
Blackstone’s “Real Estate Income Trust” (BREIT) controls controls hundreds of thousands of housing and rental units in the USA. They are often referred to as America’s largest landlord.
BREIT’s investment information page advertises that they benefit from “chronic undersupply of housing and high homeownership costs”
LePatner was the CEO of BREIT.
Blackstone’s top boss, Stephen Schwarzman, is a billionaire oligarch who has guided policy at the highest level for decades.
Presidents Obama and Trump both called Blackstone’s CEO regularly.
A record 46 million American households are renting.

This is the second high-profile CEO Killing in Manhattan in the last year.
The CEO of America’s largest health insurance company was also killed in Manhattan 8 months ago.
Corporate security spending is skyrocketing. Bloomberg reports that finance workers are afraid to return to office: “The killing rattled many who work in finance, and in private capital firms specifically.”