A New York City office building where a gunman killed four people then himself has reopened a week after the deadly shootings. On Monday, workers trickled back into 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a skyscraper home to high-profile tenants including the NFL and asset management firm Blackstone.

Twelve years after moving to the United States from Bangladesh, Didarul Islam sought to join the ranks of the nation's largest police department because he "got inspired" by the "blanket" of protection the NYPD provided to his community, according to an essay he wrote as part of his police academy application.