Wesley Mittman and the narrator shared a lifelong friendship since childhood. Growing up as Upper East Side kids, they attended the same schools and graduated from Yale together. Last week, a mass shooting occurred in New York City, resulting in the death of five individuals, including Wesley, who was an executive at Blackstone. The shooter, who also died, had a history of brain trauma due to football injuries and targeted the NFL building where the incident occurred. Wesley's death marks a profound loss for those who knew her.
We were Upper East Side kids, born two weeks apart. We met the summer we both turned four, in 1985, at a nursery-school camp at the 92nd Street Y.
Last Monday, a twenty-seven-year-old man who had driven from Las Vegas walked into the office tower at 345 Park Avenue with an assault rifle he'd bought from his supervisor at a casino and killed five people.
The fifth person he killed was himself. It was the deadliest shooting in New York City in twenty-five years.
A note found in the gunman's wallet indicated that he had suffered debilitating brain trauma from playing high-school football and had come to target the National Football League.
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