(JEWISH GROUP) Julia Hyman, 27-year-old Midtown Manhattan shooting victim, mourned at Central Synagogue

Mourners filled Central Synagogue Wednesday morning for the funeral of Julia Hyman, the 27-year-old Jewish woman who was one of four people killed in Monday’s mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan.

“We gather with hearts shattered and spirits heavy, struggling to make sense of a world that has lost someone so luminous, so full of promise and so deeply loved,” said Hyman’s uncle, Rob Pittman, during the memorial service.

Others who spoke during the service led by Rabbi Maurice Salth included Hyman’s cousins and groups of friends from the Bronx’s Riverdale Country School, Tripp Lake Camp in Maine and Cornell University.

“Let us be careful about trying to make this tragedy feel better by saying such things as, ‘At least she went quickly,’ or, ‘At least we had her for 27 years,’” Salth said. “There is nothing that can make this tragedy better or logical.”

Hyman was working late in her role as an associate for Rudin Management, the real estate firm that owns the office building at 345 Park Ave. where the shooting took place at the end of a work day. The alleged gunman, who police said may have been targeting the NFL, which is housed in the building, killed four people before turning his gun on himself. Two of the victims, Hyman and Wesley LePatner, a philanthropist and Blackstone executive, were members of Upper East Side Jewish communities.

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