The crazed gunman behind the lethal Manhattan capturing left behind a notice referencing former NFL star Terry Lengthy — the Pittsburgh Steelers participant who was recognized with CTE after downing antifreeze to kill himself, sources stated.
Shane Tamura, 27, killed an NYPD officer and three different individuals on Monday night when he stormed the Midtown skyscraper that’s house to the soccer league’s headquarters.
Within the wake of the bloodshed, cops found a rambling notice the place Tamura talked about the ex-NFL star and claimed that he, too, suffered from CTE – a mind damage linked to move trauma.
“Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of antifreeze,” the notice acknowledged, in response to sources.
“You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash you.”
NYC Midtown capturing timeline
- Stories of the capturing at 345 Park Ave. begin coming in round 6:28 p.m.
- The shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, is seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double-parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets, with an M4 rifle.
- He walks in direction of the skyscraper, enters the foyer and turns proper, the place he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, lifeless.
- Tamura weapons down a girl cowering behind a pillar within the foyer as he sprays extra bullets and walks towards the elevator financial institution — the place he shoots lifeless a safety guard crouching at his desk.
- Yet another man reviews being shot and injured within the foyer. He was in vital however secure situation.
- The gunman permits a girl to stroll out of the elevators unhurt, earlier than heading as much as the thirty third flooring, the place constructing proprietor Rudin Properties’ places of work are positioned, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
- One man is shot and killed on that flooring.
- “He then proceeds down a hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” ending his rampage.
- It’s unclear how lengthy the mayhem lasted. Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
“Please study brain for CTE. I’m sorry. The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits. They failed us.”
Lengthy, who was an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers within the late 80s, was recognized with CTE after he killed himself in 2005 by downing antifreeze.
