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'Beloved' Blackstone executive LePatner killed in Manhattan remembered as industry leader
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss | July 30, 2025
Aftermath of a deadly mass shooting in Manhattan, in New York City
'Beloved' Blackstone executive LePatner killed in Manhattan remembered as industry leader
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss | July 30, 2025
Aftermath of a deadly mass shooting in Manhattan, in New York City
• Wesley LePatner, 43, rose in Wall Street real estate business normally dominated by men• Blackstone colleagues cite her even-keeled temper and ability to smile through crises• LePatner never missed an opportunity to assist colleagues and friends, they said
NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab employees struggled on Tuesday to come to terms with the death of Wesley LePatner, one of the investment firm's senior executives who was gunned down late on Monday as she was leaving her Midtown Manhattan office.
The 43-year-old mother of two tried to duck for cover behind a pillar in the lobby of 345 Park Avenue, the skyscraper office building that is home to Blackstone's roughly 2,000 New York-based staff, as a gunman sprayed bullets, people with knowledge of the shooting said.
LePatner's death was at random. Neither she nor the firm, which invests more than $1.2 trillion in assets, was specifically targeted when 27-year-old Las Vegas resident Shane Tamura shot her and three others before killing himself, police told Blackstone executives.
"Beloved" was a word Blackstone executives and community leaders used to describe LePatner, a woman colleagues said had pushed into the rarefied circle of top Wall Street real estate executives traditionally dominated by men.
Blackstone President Jon Gray choked back tears describing her on a half-hour long global Zoom call Tuesday to tell the firm's 5,000 global staff of the gruesome event in New York, saying she was "one of the most beloved people at the firm."
She "worked so hard and cared so much," and had "presence, poise, and a level of care that was beyond measure," he said, according to people who listened to the call. On Monday evening, she was leaving work to meet a friend when the shooting began.
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The 43-year-old mother of two tried to duck for cover behind a pillar in the lobby of 345 Park Avenue, the skyscraper office building that is home to Blackstone's roughly 2,000 New York-based staff, as a gunman sprayed bullets, people with knowledge of the shooting said.
LePatner's death was at random. Neither she nor the firm, which invests more than $1.2 trillion in assets, was specifically targeted when 27-year-old Las Vegas resident Shane Tamura shot her and three others before killing himself, police told Blackstone executives.
"Beloved" was a word Blackstone executives and community leaders used to describe LePatner, a woman colleagues said had pushed into the rarefied circle of top Wall Street real estate executives traditionally dominated by men.
Blackstone President Jon Gray choked back tears describing her on a half-hour long global Zoom call Tuesday to tell the firm's 5,000 global staff of the gruesome event in New York, saying she was "one of the most beloved people at the firm."
She "worked so hard and cared so much," and had "presence, poise, and a level of care that was beyond measure," he said, according to people who listened to the call. On Monday evening, she was leaving work to meet a friend when the shooting began.
Please go to Reuters to continue reading.
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