A police officer and father killed in a mass shooting in New York City while working on a Park Avenue building nearly a year ago was honored in the renaming of the street Saturday in the Bronx.
Deidarul Islam was unveiled at a ceremony at E. 172nd Street and Beach Avenue in Soundview, attended by the slain officer’s family and friends, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and other NYPD officials.
“By putting Didar’s name on this street in his family’s Bronx neighborhood, New York makes him part of the landscape of the city he chose as his home and dedicated himself to serving,” Tisch said in an X post after the event.
“Once someone’s name is placed in our community, that life becomes part of the story New York tells itself,” her post read. “Deidar al-Islam has earned this place in our story.”
The 36-year-old police officer was working as a uniformed security unit at 345 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan when a gunman entered the lobby carrying an assault rifle and opened fire on July 28, 2025, fatally hitting him with the first shot.
The gunman, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura, killed four people with an AR-15-style rifle. Then he shot himself, killing him.
Investigators determined he was targeting the NFL because he was believed to be suffering from a football-related brain injury (chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE). An autopsy later showed that he was indeed suffering from the condition.
The policeman was posthumously promoted to the rank of Detective First Class.
Islam’s wife, who was pregnant when he was killed and gave birth to a son a short time later, attended the event with her three young sons.
Tish said in her post on the
An NFL employee injured in the shooting plans to sue the city for $24 million, claiming Islam’s negligence allowed the gunman to storm the building and carry out the deadly attack.