Another CEO of an evil corporation was murdered in NYC. Was it just bad luck, or a targeted assassination?

The internet’s collective boner for Luigi Mangione is still rock hard, and the blood of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson has barely dried, and yet another high-powered CEO of an arguably more evil corporation has been gunned down in her office. The murder of Blackstone Real Estate Trust (BREIT) CEO Wesley LePatner was dubious on every level. And the media headlines that followed were outrageous: 

Another Corporate Billionaire Assassinated in New York, read the New York Times. 

Second CEO Gunned Down in Less Than 12 Months, reported CNN.

Luigi Part Two, Electric Boogaloo, quipped the Wall Street Journal. 

If you missed those new reports, well, that’s probably because they’re made up. The media, of course, did not report it that way. Instead, they framed it as a mass shooting, perpetrated by a brain-damaged, mentally ill maniac who was mad at the NFL because he allegedly had CTE from high school football.

So which is it? Was Shane Devon Tamura a brain-addled victim of football head trauma? Or was he another Luigi Mangione, taking a targeted, suicidal swipe at The Opressors? 

What happened?

On July 28, Tamura, a 27-year-old security guard, drove from Las Vegas to 345 Park Ave., NYC, double-parked his BMW, and stepped out with an M4 assault rifle. He walked inside the office tower and opened fire, killing two security guards and Wesley LePatner, a high-ranking corporate executive and real estate power broker in charge of a $53 billion trust. 

Tamura then got on an elevator, rode to the Rudfin Management office on the 33rd floor, shot an employee, and finally turned the gun on himself.

When people learned of the shooting, Tamura was quickly likened to Luigi Mangione, you know, the guy who gunned down the CEO of United Health and subsequently became the defacto hero of the oppressed. Well, The Powers That Be couldn’t have the internet rallying around another CEO killer. So the mayor of NYC made a public statement, telling everyone this was just a routine mass shooting, nothing deeper or more targeted. CNN then got word from an anonymous source that police had found a three-page note in Tamura’s pocket claiming he had CTE, and asking that his brain be studied. According to the mayor, Tamura was just a clumsy agent of chaos, who’d meant to go to the NFL’s office on the fifth floor, and got turned around on the way. 

Now narrative’s been established: Tamura was targeting the NFL, not strategically assassinating a corporate power broker responsible for the current housing crisis.

Who was Wesley LePatner?

To understand who Wesley LePatner was, or why it matters that she was one of just two non-security personnel killed in this attack, one must understand her job. She was the CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust (BREIT), the $53 billion war chest Wall Street has been using to vacuum up houses, apartments, condos, and properties across America since 2017. Since it was founded, BREIT has ripped $105 billion in property off the market, paying in cash and outbidding every family and individual who tried to compete. It is creating a permanent renter’s economy, where no one owns a home, and everyone has the same landlord. 

LePatner had been integral to BREIT since its inception. She previously served as its COO and was appointed as CEO in 2025. Her death, regardless of Tamura’s motive or intention, was another signal to the CEO class that no one is safe. 

Lingering questions…

The media scrambled like eggs to paint this guy as a football nut, who never shied away from contact on the field — even though his friends say he never mentioned head trauma. Why publicly jump to such hard conclusions so fast without an investigation?

No one has seen Tamura’s alleged three-page suicide note. It has not been directly quoted, and naturally, CNN didn’t disclose where it learned about it. What else did it say, and was the NFL even mentioned?

If LePatner was actually Tamura’s target, why didn’t he flee after killing her in the lobby? Why did he go to the 33rd floor and take another victim before killing himself? 

So far, we don’t know anything about Tamura except his football background. What was his motive to assassinate LePatner if the NFL/CTE story is bogus? 

Juan’s Word

Regardless of Tamura’s intentions, a second CEO of a company known for oppressing the middle class was killed in less than 12 months. Maybe that’s an unlucky coincidence — maybe the NFL dodged actual bullets. Or maybe, Tamura pulled this off exactly as intended. 

Either way, if I were a CEO right now, I know which narrative I’d want to push, regardless of the truth. One CEO assassinated is an aberration. Two makes a pattern. Any more, and it might just be the start of a revolution.