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Fox News halted its programming in an emotional Monday night press conference, Mayor Eric Adams mourned the loss of five lives in a Midtown Manhattan office shooting, including a young NYPD officer, calling the violence “senseless” and “unimaginable.”

“This never, never gets easy,” Adams said. “I thought about that today when the notification came over from the police commissioner that we had a number of shots fired.”

The gunman, armed with an M4-style rifle, opened fire inside 345 Park Avenue just after 6:30 p.m., killing four civilians and NYPD Officer Faisal Islam, 36, before taking his own life. 

Officer Islam, a 3.5-year veteran of the department and immigrant from Bangladesh, was working security at the time.

“He was saving lives. He was protecting New Yorkers,” Adams said, visibly emotional. “He embodied what this city is all about. A true blue New Yorker.”

Adams recounted meeting the officer’s family earlier in the evening.

“This was his dad’s only son. I think about Jordan, my child. It is unimaginable to experience a loss of this magnitude,” he said

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch provided chilling new details about the attack.

At 6:28 p.m., 911 calls began reporting an active shooter at the office tower.

Surveillance footage showed the gunman exiting a double-parked black BMW with an M4 rifle in hand.

He entered the lobby and immediately shot Officer Islam before firing at a woman taking cover behind a pillar and then at a security guard.

The shooter also wounded another man in the lobby, according to a statement provided by that victim from the hospital.

The gunman then rode to the 33rd floor, where he opened fire again, killing another person before taking his own life with a shot to the chest.