The crazed gunman who killed 4 individuals in Monday’s Manhattan bloodbath thanked a documentary on CTE mind accidents and listed off the names of a number of distinguished neuroscientists in his obvious suicide be aware, sources instructed The Submit.
Shane Tamura, 27, had the rambling writings stashed in his pockets when he stormed the Midtown skyscraper at 345 Park Ave., which is dwelling to the NFL’s company headquarters, the sources stated.
How the capturing unfolded
- Stories of the capturing at 345 Park Ave. begin coming in round 6:28 p.m.
- Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle.
- He enters the foyer and turns proper, the place he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, useless.
- Tamura weapons down a lady cowering behind a pillar within the foyer, sprays extra bullets and walks towards the elevator financial institution — the place he shoots useless a safety guard crouching at his desk.
- Yet another man reviews being shot and injured within the foyer. He was in crucial however steady situation.
- The gunman permits a lady 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 situated, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
- One man is shot and killed on that flooring earlier than Tamura shoots himself within the chest.
- It’s unclear how lengthy the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
Tamura, who claimed he suffered from CTE, had scrawled “frontline documentary” on one of many pages — an obvious reference to the “League of Denial” doc that probed the hyperlinks between the NFL and the mind damage linked to move trauma.
The be aware additionally made point out of the “Fainaru brothers” — the 2 ESPN reporters who co-wrote the “League of Denial” guide.
Elsewhere, the names of a number of medical doctors have been featured on one web page, together with Dr. Ann McKee, who’s the Chief of Neuropathology at BU Alzheimer’s Illness Analysis Middle, and Dr. Christopher Nowinski, the co-founder of Boston College’s CTE Middle.
