A DAUGHTER delivered a heartbreaking eulogy to her mother, who was killed in the 345 Park Avenue mass shooting.
Wesley LePatner, 43, a managing partner at Blackstone, was laid to rest on Thursday at a Manhattan synagogue where her husband and daughter gave an emotional eulogy.
LePatner’s 14-year-old daughter spoke in front of 500 people, celebrating her late mother.
“My mom was like my rock,” she told the massive crowd at the Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan.
“I never imagined this happening when I was 14,” she said.
“It’s just unimaginable that this actually happened.
“I keep thinking it’s a prank or like a lucid dream, and that someone’s going to jump out and say, ‘Ha, ha. It was all a joke.’”
The 14-year-old continued her eulogy with tears streaming down her face.
“I hear the doorbell ring, I think it’s her, and I get excited,” she said as she began to stumble over her words.
LePatner’s husband, Evan, spoke to the 500-person crowd after his daughter.
“There’s a huge gaping Mount Everest size hole in my life right now,” Evan said.
“I know everyone here has different-sized versions of it from her loss. I am staggered by the love and caring shown by those in this room.
“It is overwhelming and awesome all at one. It speaks to the supernatural abilities Wesley had and the way she made the world better for all of us.”
LePatner was tragically shot in the lobby of the Blackstone office on Monday evening by Shane Tamura.
Tamura drove from Las Vegas to New York City with a semiautomatic rifle in search of shooting NFL executives, ABC News reported.
Tamura shot an NYPD officer and a security officer before taking the elevator up to the 33rd floor in pursuit of the NFL offices.
However, the shooter got off at the wrong floor and wound up killing a young employee at Rudin Management before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide.
A fifth person, who did work for the NFL, was shot and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
As of Tuesday, he was stable.
“I got to spend about an hour with him,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told NBC about the living victim.
“(He) is an amazing young man and so we’re optimistic about his recovery. I think that’s good news for all of us in the NFL and obviously, our hearts continue to be in support with their family.
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