Shane Tamura, the Park Ave. gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three others earlier than taking his personal life, left behind a suicide word saying he suffered from CTE, a mind damage typically linked to enjoying soccer, and was focusing on the NFL — however took the mistaken elevator, officers mentioned Tuesday.
Tamura, 27, who performed aggressive soccer when he was younger, took situation with the NFL within the word, saying “they’ll squash you” if criticized or referred to as out, police sources mentioned. He by no means performed for the NFL.
The word, which is a couple of pages lengthy and which Tamura had on him as he carried out his capturing rampage Monday, says he desires his mind to be studied, police sources mentioned.
One in three former NFL gamers, in keeping with a examine, consider they’ve CTE, persistent traumatic encephalopathy. The neuropathological situation is linked to repeated head trauma however can solely be recognized via a postmortem examination.
“Please study brain for CTE. I’m sorry,” Tamura wrote within the word, the sources mentioned. “The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits. They failed us.”
Footage obtained by the Every day Information exhibits a person, later recognized as Shane Tamura, carrying what seems to be an assault rifle getting into 345 Park Ave. earlier than reviews of a capturing. (Obtained by Every day Information)
The NFL has workplaces on 4 decrease flooring of the constructing the place the capturing occurred.
“We have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL agency that was located in the building,” Mayor Adams instructed MSNBC Tuesday morning. Adams confirmed he left a suicide word that talked about CTE.
The capturing nevertheless, befell within the foyer and on the thirty third flooring, dwelling to Rudin Administration, the place police say he killed one girl earlier than capturing himself within the chest.
“He mistakenly went up the wrong elevator bank,” Adams instructed PIX11 Tuesday, explaining how Tamura ended up on the mistaken flooring.
Mayor Adams instructed MSNBC that safeguards on the thirty third flooring saved lives.
NYPD Police Officer Didarul Islam assigned to the forty seventh precinct within the Bronx. (NYPD)
“On the floor itself, there were safe rooms, such as the bathrooms, where you had bulletproof doors and you were able to lock in the staffers inside,” he mentioned. “Several individuals were able to lock themselves in the safe rooms and we believe it played a major role in not having a greater loss of life.”
Tamura lived in Las Vegas and had a historical past of psychological sickness, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned at press convention Monday evening.
Tamura drove cross-country and double-parked his black BMW when he arrrived at 345 Park Ave., a 44-story skyscraper that takes up a whole block, from E. 51st to E. 52nd St.
Toting an M4, an assault-style rifle, he walked into the foyer of the constructing and opened hearth, Tisch mentioned, first killing NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was working his second job as a safety officer on the constructing, Tisch mentioned.
The gunman shot two different individuals within the foyer, killing one and badly wounding the opposite, earlier than taking the elevator to the thirty third flooring, Tisch mentioned.
The critically wounded survivor is an NFL government, police sources mentioned.
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