Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive with deep ties to Jewish communal organizations in New York City, was killed in the Monday shooting at the firm’s Midtown headquarters, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

LePatner, née Mittman, was the global head of Core+ Real Estate at Blackstone and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, according to Blackstone’s website. A Yale graduate, she joined the company in 2014 after more than a decade at Goldman Sachs.

She served on the board of trustees at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a pluralistic Jewish day school in New York, and she joined the board of trustees at UJA-Federation of New York earlier this month.

“We are devastated by the tragic loss of Wesley LePatner, a beloved member of UJA’s community and a member of our board of directors, who was killed in yesterday’s mass shooting in Midtown,” the federation said in a statement. 

“Wesley was extraordinary in every way — personally, professionally, and philanthropically,” the organization said. “In the wake of Oct. 7, Wesley led a solidarity mission with UJA to Israel, demonstrating her enduring commitment in Israel’s moment of heartache. She lived with courage and conviction, instilling in her two children a deep love for Judaism and the Jewish people.”

On Monday, a gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle entered the Blackstone building in Manhattan, which is home to the investment house, as well as a number of other businesses, including the Rudin real estate firm and the headquarters of the National Football League, which appears to have been the intended target of the shooting attack. The gunman, Shane Devon Tamura, opened fire in the lobby, killing LePatner and an NYPD officer, Didarul Islam, 36. He then killed a security guard, Aland Etienne, before entering an elevator and apparently getting out on the wrong floor, which housed Rudin. There, he shot and killed an associate, Julie Hyman, before turning his gun on himself.

Hyman, 27, who was also Jewish, attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx and then Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration, from which she graduated in 2020.

“I was absolutely devastated to hear about the horrific and senseless murders yesterday in midtown Manhattan, including those of Wesley LePatner, a beloved board member of UJA Federation of New York, NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, and Julia Hyman,” Ambassador Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, said in a statement. “May the memories of those lost be a blessing. My condolences go out to the families and communities of all the victims, and I wish a swift and full recovery to the injured. In this difficult moment, Israel stands in solidarity with New Yorkers and all Americans.”

In 2023, LePatner was awarded the Alan C. Greenberg Young Leadership Award at UJA’s 2023 annual Wall Street dinner. In a speech, she outlined her involvement with the organization, dating back nearly two decades.

“I first attended the UJA Wall Street dinner as a young analyst in 2004, where I am pretty certain I sat in one of the last tables at the back of the room,” LePatner said at the event, which took place two months after the Oct. 7 attacks. “Never in my wildest imagination could I have believed that I would be up on this stage two decades later. UJA has many super-powers, but its most important in my view is its power to create a sense of community and belonging, and that ability to create a sense of community and belonging matters now more than ever.”

LePatner was remembered by many as a devoted mentor during her time at Goldman Sachs and Blackstone.

“Wes LePatner was one of the kindest and most brilliant people I knew,” Joshua Kushner, founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital, wrote on X. “She was an incredible mentor to me when I was her analyst during my time at [Goldman Sachs], and a deeply supportive friend ever since. It is truly hard to comprehend such a senseless tragedy. My heart and prayers are with her family during this time. May her memory be a blessing.”

LePatner and her husband, Evan, were active in the Park East Synagogue and then joined Altneu, the congregation founded in 2022 by Park East’s former rabbi, Benjamin Goldschmidt, and his wife, Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt.

“Just a few weeks ago, we sat for lunch and spoke about the future, our children, women’s leadership, Torah, our love for Israel and all of the uncertainty of this moment in time,” Chizhik-Goldschmidt wrote on Instagram. “I looked up to her so deeply.”

LePatner also sat on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Library Council and Nareit, a real estate organization. 

She is survived by her husband and two children.