Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms, confirmed one of its employees, Wesley LePatner, was among those killed. A Yale graduate, LePatner was a real estate executive, according to Blackstone’s website, and spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs before joining the firm in 2014.

The Rudin family, which owns the building and Rudin Management, said in a statement that one of their employees was a victim of the shootings but did not disclose the person’s name at the request of relatives. Police officials said a woman was found dead on the building’s 33rd floor in Rudin’s offices.

A New York City police officer and three other people were killed in a shooting in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening, police confirmed at a late-night news conference.