{"id":31090,"date":"2025-07-29T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:12:11","slug":"shane-tamura-nyc-gunman-who-appeared-to-target-nfl-offices-mentioned-cte-in-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31090\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Tamura, NYC gunman who appeared to target NFL offices, mentioned CTE in note"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 29, 2025, 9:12 AM EDT\u00a0\/\u00a0Updated\u00a0July 29, 2025, 5:19 PM EDT<\/p>\n

By Hayley Miller<\/a><\/p>\n

The gunman who killed four people in a corporate office building in New York City on Monday before taking his own life appeared to target the National Football League<\/a> headquarters inside the high-rise, the city\u2019s mayor said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

New York police said the shooter \u2014 identified by authorities as 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura<\/a> of Nevada \u2014 entered midtown Manhattan\u2019s 345 Park Ave. on Monday evening armed with an assault rifle and opened fire in the lobby. He then went to the 33rd floor of the building and opened fire again before fatally shooting himself, police said.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in various interviews Tuesday that investigators believe Tamura may have intended to target NFL offices inside the building but used the wrong elevator bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two different elevator banks,\u201d Adams told \u201cGood Day New York\u201d<\/a> on Fox 5 on Tuesday morning. \u201cSome banks don\u2019t go to every floor. He appeared to have gone to the wrong bank, and he ended up on the floor of Rudin Management.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"US-POLICE-CRIME-SHOOTING\"Police officers and emergency vehicles at the scene of a shooting in midtown Manhattan on Monday.JOHN LAMPARSKI \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Adams said investigators found a note on Tamura referring to \u201cCTE,\u201d the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy that has been linked to contact sports, including football. <\/p>\n

NBC News reviewed a copy of the note, which was three pages long, and stated in part, \u201cPlease study brain for CTE. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d It also referred to Terry Long, a former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman who died in 2005 after drinking antifreeze<\/a>. \u201cYou can\u2019t go against the NFL, they\u2019ll squash you,” the gunman’s note stated.<\/p>\n

Tamura played football in high school, but did not play in college or for the NFL, Adams told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The gunman\u2019s rampage killed a New York City police officer and three civilians<\/a>, including Wesley LePatner, an executive at the investment firm Blackstone, which has offices inside the building. The slain NYPD officer was identified as Didarul Islam. A security officer named Aland Etienne was also identified as a victim.<\/p>\n

An NFL employee was also seriously injured in the attack, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. The employee is \u201ccurrently in the hospital and in stable condition,\u201d he said in a statement <\/a>Tuesday morning. He added, \u201cWe believe that all of our employees are otherwise safe and accounted for, and the building has nearly been cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials said Tuesday that Tamura acted alone and \u201chas a documented mental health history.\u201d He had two mental health incidents, one in 2022 and one in 2024, law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News. The specific nature of those incidents is not known, nor is it known if they would have precluded Tamura from legally possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 29, 2025, 9:12 AM EDT\u00a0\/\u00a0Updated\u00a0July 29, 2025, 5:19 PM EDT By Hayley Miller The gunman who killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}