NEW YORK:
A man who killed four people, then committed suicide in a New York skyscraper, may have been targeting the NFL offices there because he blamed the American football league for brain injuries he said he suffered, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
The revelation that the killer, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, carried a note referring to the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), offered the first possible motive for the shootings late Monday that brought central Manhattan to a standstill.
The attacker shot a police officer outside the tower on Park Avenue, then opened fire in the lobby, before trying to head up to the National Football League’s offices, armed with a semi-automatic rifle.
The suicide note said “that he felt he had CTE, a known brain injury for those who participated in contact sports. He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury,” Adams told CBS News.
Adams said that Tamura had never actually played for the top professional league. However, he was reportedly a star player at high-school-level in California
