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A National Football League employee injured in the mass shooting at a Midtown office building last year plans to sue New York City for $24 million — claiming the slain off-duty cop’s negligence allowed the gunman to storm the building and carry out the deadly spree.

Craig Clementi, who worked in the NFL’s finance department, was severely injured after he was shot in the back by deranged gunman Shane Tamura at the Park Avenue skyscraper on July 28, 2025. 

Clementi said that NYPD Det. Didarul Islam failed to stop Tamura, 27, from wounding him in the bloody massacre, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court filing last week. Tamura gunned down Islam and three other victims during the rampage.

Islam was working in uniform at 345 Park Ave. as part of the NYPD’s “paid detail” security program when an armed Tamura strolled into the building.

“Detective Islam…failed to identify a visible impending security threat and took no action to thwart or mitigate said threat, including while the threat was in view for an extended period of time prior to the attack,” according to the notice of claim.

The filing claims that Islam breached a special duty he had to protect people in the building by failing to notice the gunman walk roughly 100 feet across its outdoor plaza while carrying an M4 assault rifle in plain sight.

It is not clear if Islam, who was standing at the lobby entrance, saw the gunman before bullets flew. 

“In short, the video evidence provides a good faith basis to assert that Detective Islam’s inattentiveness and negligence allowed the gunman to walk across the building’s plaza with a visible assault rifle and into the building; all without the gunman being detected, deterred, confronted, neutralized and without building/lobby occupants being warned of the approaching danger,” the lawsuit argues. 

The special filing requests permission to sue the city well-beyond the typical 90-day window to bring claims, arguing that the shocking video evidence was not available until recently.

“I did not know and had no reason to know that Officer Islam’s conduct in the moments preceding the shooting may have been negligent until my attorneys informed me of what they had recently observed upon viewing the building’s surveillance footage,” Clementi notes in a sworn filing.

Clementi, who has worked at the NFL for nearly a decade as a senior director of labor finance, “was shot in close range” in his side and lower back as he stood in the lobby, around 10 feet away from Islam, according to court filings.

“Despite my injuries, I was able to flee through the building’s shattered revolving door,” Clementi states in an affidavit.

He then ran to NYPD officers on East 51st Street where he “lay wounded on the sidewalk,” waiting for first responders, the document states.

After being rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, he was put in the Intensive Care Unit and had surgery to remove bullet fragments. 

Clementi suffered a lumbar fracture and was hospitalized for 10 days and required “home wound care nursing and physical therapy” after being discharged, one document in the filing states. 

“I bear permanent depressed scars from the wound and I experience pain every day,” Clementi wrote in a filing, in addition to “severe psychological trauma” with “significant disruption to my daily life and professional activities.”

Clementi is seeking $24 million in damages from the city. 

While Islam was technically off-duty from the NYPD while working as private security, the lawsuit argues that the city can be held liable in the case as his duties “remain within the City’s control.”

The program allows private companies to pay for off-duty security work by NYPD officers while in their uniforms. 

Detective Islam, who lived in the Bronx and was assigned to the 47th Precinct, had served on the force for four years. 

In the aftermath of the shooting, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch praised the 36-year-old off-duty cop, who was a Bangladeshi immigrant and father of three. 

The family of  27-year-old Cornell University graduate Julia Hyman, who was one of the four people killed in the horrific Midtown shooting spree, also plans to sue the city for $65 million under similar claims that Islam “utterly and completely” failed to stop the crazed gunman before he stormed into the building, The Post previously reported. 

While Tamura’s motive for the bloody massacre remains under investigation, it is believed that he intended to target the NFL offices before shooting himself.

In a suicide note, he made reference to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a common brain condition in football players and a post-mortem “found unambiguous diagnostic evidence” of CTE.