NYC gunman focused NFL workplace, left observe

The gunman who killed 4 folks after which himself at a Manhattan workplace constructing on Monday was focusing on NFL places of work, NYC Mayor Eric Adams mentioned.

Adams, talking Tuesday, mentioned authorities “have cause to consider that he was centered on the NFL,” which has places of work within the constructing the place the taking pictures occurred. The gunman, Shane Tamura, left a observe claiming to have persistent traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a mind illness linked to contact sports activities like soccer.

In line with FOX 11 LA, Tamura was a working again in highschool at Granada Hills Constitution Excessive College in Los Angeles.

Adams advised CNN that town’s medical expert would make the decision on whether or not to check the gunman for CTE, which may solely be recognized after dying by inspecting mind tissue.

In his observe, Tamura criticized the NFL and referenced Terry Lengthy, a former NFL participant who was recognized with CTE and died by suicide in 2005.

Within the observe, Tamura repeatedly apologized and requested for his physique to be studied for CTE. He shot himself within the chest as a substitute of the pinnacle.

“Research my mind please,” the observe reads. “I’m sorry.”

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Adams mentioned investigators consider the gunman entered one of many constructing’s elevator banks with out entry to the NFL’s places of work. Tamura as a substitute ended up at Rudin Administration on the thirty third flooring, the place his physique was later discovered.

One of many victims was Didarul Islam, an off-duty New York Police Division officer. Adams ordered all flags at metropolis buildings to fly at half-staff in honor of him.

The 2 different folks killed had been Wesley LePatner, a senior govt on the funding agency Blackstone, and Aland Etienne, a safety guard on the constructing. On the household’s request, the fourth sufferer’s identify will not be being launched. A fifth individual, an worker on the NFL, was injured.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned the incident bolsters the case for stricter gun legal guidelines.

“New York has a few of the strongest gun legal guidelines within the nation,” Hochul mentioned in a press release. “However our legal guidelines solely go to date when an AR-15 could be obtained in a state with weak gun legal guidelines and introduced into New York to commit mass homicide.”

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