A DAUGHTER delivered a heartbreaking eulogy to her mother, who was killed in the 345 Park Avenue mass shooting.
Wesley LePatner, 43, a managing partner at Blackstone, was laid to rest on Thursday at a Manhattan synagogue where her husband and daughter gave an emotional eulogy.
LePatner’s 14-year-old daughter spoke in front of 500 people, celebrating her late mother.
“My mom was like my rock,” she told the massive crowd at the Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan.
“I never imagined this happening when I was 14,” she said.
“It’s just unimaginable that this actually happened.
“I keep thinking it’s a prank or like a lucid dream, and that someone’s going to jump out and say, ‘Ha, ha. It was all a joke.’”
The 14-year-old continued her eulogy with tears streaming down her face.
“I hear the doorbell ring, I think it’s her, and I get excited,” she said as she began to stumble over her words.
LePatner’s husband, Evan, spoke to the 500-person crowd after his daughter.
“There’s a huge gaping Mount Everest size hole in my life right now,” Evan said.
“I know everyone here has different-sized versions of it from her loss. I am staggered by the love and caring shown by those in this room.
“It is overwhelming and awesome all at one. It speaks to the supernatural abilities Wesley had and the way she made the world better for all of us.”
LePatner was tragically shot in the lobby of the Blackstone office on Monday evening by Shane Tamura.
Tamura drove from Las Vegas to New York City with a semiautomatic rifle in search of shooting NFL executives, ABC News reported.
Tamura shot an NYPD officer and a security officer before taking the elevator up to the 33rd floor in pursuit of the NFL offices.
Timeline of NYC shooting
A gunman stormed 345 Park Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan, on Monday night killing four before turning the gun on himself.
Cops are now investigating why the suspect Shane Tamura carried out the brutal attack, having released a preliminary timeline and tracing back through his movements.
July 26 – Tamura drives through Colorado in his black BMW
July 27 – Tamura drives through Nebraska and Iowa. He also doesn’t show up for work as a security guard at a Las Vegas casino
July 28, 6.28pm – Reports of the shooting first reach the NYPD. Tamura had moments earlier double parked his car and walked across a plaza into 345 Park Avenue.
Once inside, Tamura shoots off-duty officer Didarul Islam working as security dead
He guns down a woman attempting to hide behind a pillar as he sprays the lobby with bullets
Tamura walks towards the elevators where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk
Gunman spares woman’s life after she walks out of elevator in front of him
He travels up to the 33rd floor to Rudin Properties’ office and fires as he walks the floor killing one
Tamura shoots himself in his chest ending his life and ending the rampage
7.52pm – NYC Police Commissioner Tisch posted on X: “the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
However, the shooter exited at the wrong floor, inadvertently killing a young employee at Rudin Management before turning the gun on himself in a suicide.
A fifth person, who did work for the NFL, was shot and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
As of Tuesday, he was stable.
“I got to spend about an hour with him,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told NBC about the living victim.
“(He) is an amazing young man and so we’re optimistic about his recovery. I think that’s good news for all of us in the NFL and obviously, our hearts continue to be in support with their family.
“He has a young family. I had a chance to meet his brother and parents and I think it’s something that is really hard for all of us to understand and to deal with.”
