Blackstone Inc. executive Wesley LePatner has been named as one of the four people killed in the mass shooting in New York on Monday evening.

The shooting at a Midtown Manhattan tower exposes how eliminating threats can be nearly impossible, even in fortified workplaces.

At the height of the evening rush, a man double-parked his BMW on Park Avenue, calmly strode across a public plaza with an assault-style rifle in his hand, stepped into the lobby and opened fire. Glass shattered in the lobby and bodies lay still. Office workers sprinted out of the building or scrambled for cover.

The groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for this morning at the QTS data center site in southwest Cedar Rapids was canceled by company leaders in the wake

The New York Police Department said shots were fired at the building that houses Blackstone, KPMG, and other businesses on Monday evening.

Employees were evacuated by police.

It's raw, haunting, and everywhere. Here's the story behind the Blackstone office photo that people can't stop sharing from the NYC shooting.

Wesley LePatner, a senior executive at Blackstone, was among the four victims of a gunman who opened fire on Monday in a Park Avenue office tower.