Didarul Islam, 36, a male Bangladeshi immigrant, was fatally shot on July 28, 2025, when a gunman opened fire inside an office tower in Midtown Manhattan. Islam, an off-duty NYPD officer working an approved private security detail that evening, confronted the attacker as chaos erupted and was hailed as a hero by city leaders for protecting others as the violence unfolded. He lived in the Bronx with his wife—pregnant with their third child—and two young sons, and had served with the departmen
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