Posted on: July 31, 2025 07:45 AM

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Shooting in Midtown was New Yorks Deadliest in 25 years

The last killing of such a scale in the city was during a fast-food restaurant robbery in Queens in 2000. Mass murders of strangers are rare.

The rampage that left four people dead in a Midtown Manhattan building on Monday was the single shooting with the highest death toll in New York City in 25 years.

The last time New York City recorded a higher toll was in 2000, when five people were fatally shot and two were injured at a Wendy’s in Flushing, Queens, during a robbery, according to former police officials and published reports.

Shootings like the one on Monday, which left a police officer dead and forced workers inside the building to hide as the gunman sprayed bullets from an assault rifle, are rare in New York City, where security is tight at private companies and strict gun laws make obtaining high-powered weapons difficult, according to former New York police officers and security experts.