{"id":32276,"date":"2025-07-29T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32276\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:02:09","slug":"gunman-in-nyc-shooting-claimed-to-have-cte-targeted-nfl-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32276\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman in NYC Shooting Claimed to Have CTE, Targeted NFL Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe man who is accused of a mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan<\/a>, which killed four people and wounded a fifth person on Monday, left a note that claimed he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), ABC News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suspect, Shane Tumura, died by suicide following the shooting<\/a>, which took place at NFL<\/a> headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The suspect has no known connection to the NFL.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe multi-page note, which was found in his pocket, included his claim he had CTE, blamed football, and accused the NFL of hiding football\u2019s potential risks to players\u2019 brains in order to increase profits, sources told the outlet. In a third page of the note, he wrote, \u201cStudy my brain please. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d per ABC sources.<\/p>\n

\n\tCTE, a neurodegenerative brain disease that has been connected to repeated hits to the head, has been seen in athletes, including hockey players and boxers (CTE was found in a study of donated brains of NFL players<\/a>), and military veterans. It has been associated with \u201cimpulsivity, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and explosivity,\u201d according to one study<\/a>, and symptoms can include loss of memory, changes in mood, confusion, and difficulty thinking clearly.<\/p>\n

\n\tTamura, 27, was a high school football player, but never played professionally. Sources told NBC that so far, no evidence has been discovered by police showing he had CTE or a brain injury.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew York City<\/a> Mayor Eric Adams told Fox 5 on Tuesday that it \u201cappeared\u201d Tamura was \u201cgoing after\u201d NFL employees. In an interview with CBS, he said: \u201cHe, from our preliminary investigation, he took the wrong elevator bank up to the NFL headquarters,\u201d Adams said. \u201cInstead, it took him to Rudin Management, and that is where he carried out additional shootings and took the lives of additional employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFour people were killed, including police officer Didarul Islam and an executive at Blackstone. A fifth victim was wounded and taken to the hospital in critical condition, but is stable following surgery, per an ABC source.<\/p>\n

\n\tNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said an NFL employee had been \u201cseriously injured\u201d during the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who is accused of a mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan, which killed four people and wounded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,167,514,6836,82],"class_list":["post-32276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-york-city","tag-nfl","tag-shooting","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276","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=32276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}