‘My mom was like my rock’

The grieving husband and teenage daughter of slain Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner delivered heartbreaking eulogies at her funeral Thursday, telling hundreds of mourners at a Manhattan synagogue her loss has left “a huge gaping hole” in their hearts.

“My mom was like my rock,” 14-year-old Emmerson LePatner told more than 500 people gathered at Central Synagogue in Midtown, just blocks from where her mom was tragically killed in the 345 Park Avenue mass shooting.

“I went over this scenario a thousand times in my head, and I only thought it would happen when I was older,” the teen continued.

“I never imagined this happening when I was 14. It’s just unimaginable that this actually happened,” she said. “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.’

“Every time I hear the doorbell ring I think it’s her, and I get excited … I just miss her so much.”

LePatner, 43, a managing partner at Blackstone, was gunned down in the lobby of her office building at on Monday evening by unhinged attacker Shane Tamura, who killed three others before turning the weapon on himself.

“There’s a huge gaping Mount Everest size hole in my life right now,” her husband, Evan LePatner, told mourners.

“I know everyone here has different sized versions of it from her loss,” he said, adding, “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 remembered as a brilliant and high-achieving executive who remained grounded for those around her — particularly her husband and two children.

The couple met as freshmen at Yale University, and formed a bond that evolved into a life together.

Wesley went on to a job at Goldman Sachs, and later at Blackstone, where she worked her way up to managing partner in the real estate division before her death.

Born Wesley Mittman, the future exec impressed her parents from the moment she was born.

“I held Wesley in my arms with these two huge eyes, looking not only at me, but looking around the delivery room — and it was almost like a periscope circling the room,” her father, Larry Mittman, said.

He said his newborn daughter seemed “to have the most intelligent eyes that I have ever seen.”

Wesley proved him right through a successful business career, but was also committed to philanthropy through the UJA-Federation of New York, organizing a humanitarian mission to Israel following the surprise attack on the Jewish state by Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, 2023.

She served on the UJA board with Merryl Tisch, the mother of NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who called LePatner her “beautiful friend” at a vigil following the Midtown massacre.

Three others, security guard Aland Etienne, Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman and NYPD Police Officer Didarul Islam were also killed by Tamura during the rampage. Hyman’s funeral was held at the same synagogue on Wednesday.

During his eulogy, Evan LePatner said he was struggling to cope with the idea of a future without his beloved wife.

“How does the husband of a giant like Wesley possibly capture her in a short eulogy?” he asked mourners.

“People often say there are no words, or I am at a loss of words,” he said. “But that isn’t the right phrase here. There aren’t enough words.”