The arrows fell in the skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan in New York. The perpetrator who was identified by the police as Shane Tamura, a resident of Las Vegas, was to struggle with mental illness – chronic post -traumatic encephalopathy. He wrote about this in the note, mentioning the National Football League. The content of the note showed that Tamura blamed NFL for osteoarthritis (CTE).
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New York. The perpetrator shot four people
The 27-year-old entered the skyscraper on Monday evening, which includes National Football League and Blackstone offices. He had a semi -automatic rifle with him, from which he first shot a New York police officer, assigned to protect the building. Then he shot a woman and two men in the lobby, and killed the last victim on the 33rd floor before he took his life with a shot in the chest. A message card was found in his portfolio.
“The note referred to the fact that he felt that he had CTE, known brain damage to those who participate in contact sports,” said the mayor of New York Eric Adams CBS News. “It seemed that he blamed the NFL for his injury.” In the note Tamura he was to ask to examine his brain after his death. The shooter was most likely looking for revenge, but by mistake he entered the wrong elevator and instead of at the NFL headquarters he found himself in the offices of Rudin Management, a real estate company.
Chronic post -traumatic encephalopathy is a serious brain disease that can be caused by repetitive hits in the head while practicing contact sports. One of its symptoms may be aggression, and a side effect – dementia. According to Reuters, NFL has already paid about $ 1 billion. In total for settlements in court cases related to injuries after sports.
Tamura was never a NFL player, but he could play high school football. The note found in his portfolio reported that his football career was interrupted by brain trauma – reports Bloomberg News.
