{"id":171217,"date":"2025-09-26T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:51:10","slug":"gunman-who-blamed-nfl-for-hiding-brain-injury-dangers-had-cte-medical-examiner-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171217\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman who blamed NFL for hiding brain injury dangers had CTE, medical examiner confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758912670_243_imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; Members of the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Scene Unit examine a door with bullet holes, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York, the day after a deadly shooting. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura, File)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 26, 2025 | 12:21 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The former high school football player <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-city-shooting-killed-0d002f9e3a3fdab7d7ad93616d42e865\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who killed four people<\/a> inside a Manhattan office tower that houses the headquarters of the NFL, and who blamed the league for hiding the dangers of brain injuries, was suffering from the degenerative brain disease CTE, New York\u2019s medical examiner said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Tamura, 27, had \u201cunambiguous diagnostic evidence\u201d of low-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, according to the New York City medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Tamura, a Las Vegas casino worker, carried out the mass shooting on July 28, spraying bullets into the lobby of a Manhattan office building housing the headquarters of the NFL, which he accused of hiding evidence of the brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Among <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/victims-office-shooting-new-york-nfl-2869b5bb31e6480dc2c20175d270ad88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the dead<\/a> were a police officer, a security guard and two people who worked at companies in the building. An NFL employee was badly wounded but survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE &#8211; Members of the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Scene Unit examine a door with bullet holes, Tuesday, July 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-171217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}