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New York Post
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- Health
- New York Post
Epilepsy, depression meds found at home of NYC shooter Shane Tamura: sources
Detectives found prescription medication for depression and epilepsy in the Las Vegas home of Midtown mass shooter Shane Tamura, sources tell The Post. The discovery was made while executing a search warrant at his Sin City apartment Tuesday, a day after he stormed a New York skyscraper with an AR-style rifle, killing four people and wounding one before turning the gun on himself. Shane Tamura killed four people and wounded one before turning the gun on himself in a New York City skyscraper. AP Advertisement Prescription medication for depression and epilepsy were found in Tamura's Las Vegas home, sources tell The Post. Toby Canham for While previously searching his car, investigators found a Colt Python .357-caliber handgun, along with a rifle case, ammunition and the migraine medication Sumatriptan. Also found was a note in which Tamura, 27, revealed he felt like a 'complete disappointment' to his parents, including his retired cop father, sources told The Post. Advertisement Tamura had been targeting the NFL, which has its headquarters at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan, blaming the league for what he alleges is CTE — a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeat blows to the head. A note found on his body after the shooting expressed admiration for doctors specializing in CTE as well as a documentary linking the NFL to the prevalence of the disease among its players. Tamura was a star running back in high school, but never played football at the collegiate or professional level.
First Post
an hour ago
- Sport
- First Post
Manhattan Gunman Blames NFL, Kills Four In New York First Sports With Rupha Ramani
Manhattan Gunman Blames NFL, Kills Four In New York | First Sports With Rupha Ramani | N18G A chilling mass shooting in Manhattan has reignited a terrifying question: Is the NFL producing killers? The 27-year-old gunman, who took the lives of four people before killing himself, was allegedly targeting the NFL headquarters and blaming the league for his mental breakdown and a brain disease called CTE. This isn't the first time a former football player suffering from CTE has committed homicide. From Aaron Hernandez to Phillip Adams, disturbing patterns are emerging. With over 91% of studied NFL brains showing signs of CTE, the question is no longer if the league has a problem, but what it's doing about it. Rupha Ramani breaks down the truth, the science, and the responsibility the NFL can no longer avoid. See More
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Park Avenue gunman Shane Tamura left second suicide note in Las Vegas home
NEW YORK — Shane Tamura, the gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three civilians before taking his own life inside a Midtown Manhattan Park Avenue skyscraper, left a second suicide note behind in his Las Vegas home, police sources said Wednesday. The newly discovered note is similar to the three-page suicide screed found folded up in Tamura's wallet after he killed himself and is also focused on CTE, a brain injury Tamura believed he had and blamed the NFL for, a police source said. Toting an M-4 assault-style rifle with a scope and a barrel flashlight attached, Tamura walked into the lobby of 345 Park Ave. about 6:30 p.m. Monday and opened fire, first killing Officer Didarul Islam, who was in his NYPD uniform working a paid security detail authorized by the department. The gunman shot three civilians in the lobby, killing two and badly wounding the other, before taking the elevator to the 33rd floor, where he killed one more person before taking his own life. In the suicide note found in his wallet, Tamura blamed the NFL for his CTE, although the NYPD determined there was no nexus between the high school football player and the NFL. Police believe he was targeting the NFL headquarters on four lower floors of the building but took the wrong elevator bank. 'You can't go against the NFL,' he wrote in the note found in his wallet, police said. 'They'll squash you.' 'CTE. Study my brain please,' Tamura added. 'The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits. They failed us.' A team of NYPD detectives were sent to Las Vegas to search Tamura's home and interview his friends and associates, NYPD Chief of Department John Chell told Fox 5's 'Good Day New York' Wednesday. 'We will look at his phones and computer. We will talk to his family,' Chell said. 'We have to go to all of this, because it gives us the best info to prevent it next time.' 'This investigation is far from over,' he added. 'It's going to be a lot of work.' _____
The Guardian
2 hours ago
- The Guardian
The New York gunman blamed CTE. I've seen that pain and I know silence is deadly
Four people lost their lives this week in a Manhattan office building, gunned down in a place I know well, by a man with a rifle and a three-page note blaming football and the brain diseases it allegedly left him with. One of the victims was an off-duty NYPD officer. Another was a Blackstone executive. All were innocent. All were just trying to make it home, and thanks to 27-year-old Shane Tamura, they never did. I've walked through those NFL offices. I've sat in those rooms. I have friends who still work there, people I care about deeply. And on the other side, I've known people and lost people who have suffered with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), not always to death, but to the isolation that comes with it and the slow unraveling of mind, body, and spirit. And I've lost people to gun violence. Too many of us have. So when I read that the shooter claimed to suffer from CTE, that he was trying to reach the NFL offices and take revenge for what he believed the game did to his brain, though he never played on the professional level, I felt more than shock. I felt grief. I felt rage. I felt an urgency I can't ignore, and neither should you. This tragedy isn't just a story about one man. Even in the gunman's three-page note found is his wallet, he referenced Terry Long, a former NFL player who died by suicide and was later confirmed to have CTE, it's a warning about everything we still refuse to confront: how we treat brain trauma, how we ignore mental illness, how we arm the broken, and how silence, in football, politics, and culture, continues to kill. I know what it feels like to weaponize your own body. I played Division I football at Purdue and was later drafted to the Dallas Cowboys. I went on to play and start for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Buffalo Bills. I've lined up across Hall of Famers, driven my shoulder into men twice my size at ungodly speeds, and felt my own skull rattling in my helmet tackles after tackle and hit after hit. In football, that wasn't cause for concern. That was cause for celebration. I often remember teammates from as young as high school to 12-year vets in the NFL often hiding their concussion symptoms to not lose time on the field, and too often, coaches and trainers encouraged, or at the very least, turned a blind eye to these circumstances. That's not to say that for every indifferent coach or trainer, there weren't a host of more diligent and careful ones to check in with them, but still, athletes slip through the cracks more often than not. We were conditioned to treat pain like performance fuel. If you could keep playing, you did. You'd tape it, ice it, pop a pill, and keep quiet. But there is no quick fix for the brain. We called it toughness. We called it loyalty. We called it team culture. But let's be honest, it was silent, slow bleeding. And for some of us, it never stopped. I recall playing for the Buccaneers as a starter back in 2017, dislocating my shoulder, tearing my labrum and breaking part of my clavicle, only to take two weeks off, medicate, ice and rehabilitate, so that I could play the rest of the season, missing only one game. Each week, while my teammates were practicing for our next opponent and getting better at their craft, I was rehabbing my shoulder enough to be able to raise my arm on its own – never above my head, though – and play again that week, repeating my own self-torture. And I was thanked for it every week until it became expected of me by everyone in the organization. I was later cut in 2018 for that same injury, which had gotten substantially worse through playing. CTE isn't something you talk about in the locker room. It's something you whisper about years later when a former teammate loses his marriage, disappears into depression, or dies by suicide, which I have personal accounts of. It's something you fear will show up in your own life like a ghost or the boogeyman, in a burst of rage you can't explain, in the way your memory blurs, in the quiet moment you wonder if your mind is slipping away. The man who opened fire in Manhattan didn't play in the NFL. He played high school football over a decade ago. But the way he described his suffering in his final note, the way he named CTE, and the league, and begged for his brain to be studied: that language, that desperation, it's familiar. I've heard it. I've lived adjacent to it. Some of my friends and former teammates' lives have been ruined. None of these are excuses for what he did. Let me be absolutely clear: the victims of this attack did not deserve what happened to them. Their families, their communities, and our country are left mourning yet another senseless act of violence. But if we don't look at what led him there, the culture of silence around brain trauma, the lack of access to mental healthcare, the glorification of pain and masculinity in football, then we're choosing ignorance. And ignorance has never saved a single life. For all its faults, the NFL at least has the awareness to ban finger guns and any gestures resembling violence from celebrations, yet our country remains hell-bent on not just refusing to ban real guns but actively loosening gun laws under the current administration. This wasn't just about CTE. It was also about access. Shane Tamura drove across the country with a file in his car and pain in his chest. He crossed state lines, walked into a corporate building in Manhattan, and took four lives before taking his own. That kind of devastation doesn't happen without a weapon in hand, and in this country, that weapon is far too easy to get. I've lost people to gun violence. People who looked like me. People whom I called uncle, brother, and friend. I could have been lost to the same fate, but I was lucky enough to have sports to escape into. Football, manhood and masculinity teach men to bottle up what hurts, and then America hands them a gun when they finally explode. There are more regulations on touchdown celebrations and social media content than on who gets to buy an AR-15. Grief and condolences are not enough. Not this time. Not anymore. The NFL has taken steps, but it's time to double down at all levels. Mental performance and mental wellness can no longer be an afterthought in a sport built around pain. From the first padded practice in youth football to the final snap of a pro career, we need to talk openly about trauma, identity, support and care, as well as regular mental performance screenings. Not just for stars. For everyone. We also need to take along hard look at the laws that let people like Tamura move through this country with a weapon of war and no safety net. If CTE was the fuel, access to that rifle was the match. How many more lives have to be lost before our lawmakers act? Before mental health and gun access are treated as connected crises, not isolated talking points? I'm speaking up because silence has already cost us too much. I was lucky. I got out with my body and my voice. But I know players who didn't. I know communities that didn't. So remember the names of the victims. Officer Didarul Islam. Wesley LePatner. Aland Etienne. And one more soul whose name we will learn too late. Don't reduce them to headlines. Don't let the systems that failed them off the hook. And please, don't look away.
CTV News
2 hours ago
- CTV News
Officials work to unravel how and why gunman carried out deadly attack on NYC office building
People raise their phone lights during the vigil for the victims killed in the previous day's shooting at 345 Park Avenue, including NYPD officer Didarul Islam, in Bryant Park, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis) NEW YORK — Investigators on Wednesday were looking into how a former high school football player who blamed the game for his mental health problems carried out a deadly attack on an office building that is home to the NFL. Shane Tamura, 27, killed four people on Monday before killing himself, spraying the skyscraper's lobby with bullets and then continuing his rampage on the 33rd floor, authorities said. In a handwritten note found in his wallet after the attack, Tamura claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known at CTE, and accused the NFL of hiding the dangers of brain injuries linked to contact sports, investigators said. Detectives on Wednesday were digging into the Las Vegas casino worker's background and motivations. They planned to question a man who supplied gun parts for the AR-15-style rifle used in the attack, including the weapon's lower receiver, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a video statement. Among the dead 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. Tamura, a surveillance worker for the Horseshoe Las Vegas, had meant to target the NFL's headquarters in the building but took the wrong elevator, authorities said. It's unclear whether he showed symptoms of CTE, which can be diagnosed only by examining a brain after death. Tamura, who played high school football in California a decade ago but never played in the NFL, had a history of mental illness, police said without giving details. In the three-page note found on his body, he accused the NFL of concealing the dangers to players' brains for profit. The degenerative brain disease has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports such as football. At a Tuesday night vigil for those killed in the shooting, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and other faith leaders delivered prayers at a park about a dozen blocks from where the shooting took place. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke of the need for stronger gun laws. 'We cannot respond to senseless gun laws through vigils,' Adams said. NFL boss calls shooting 'unspeakable' Tamura's note repeatedly said he was sorry and asked that his brain be studied for CTE. The NFL long denied the link between football and CTE, but it acknowledged the connection in 2016 testimony before Congress and has paid more than $1.4 billion to retired players to settle concussion-related claims. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who works out of the offices, called the shooting 'an unspeakable act of violence.' The shooting happened at a skyscraper on Park Avenue, one of the nation's most recognized streets, just blocks from Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center. It is less than a 15-minute walk from where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed last December by a man who prosecutors say was angry over what he saw as corporate greed. Video shows the gunman stroll into the building Tamura drove across the country in the days before the attack and into New York City, Tisch said. Surveillance video showed him exit his BMW outside the building at about 6:30 p.m. Monday wearing a button-down shirt and jacket with the rifle at his side. Once inside the lobby, he opened fire and killed Islam and Wesley LePatner, a real estate executive at the investment firm Blackstone, which occupies much of the building. Tamura then made his way toward the elevator bank, shooting the NFL employee and an unarmed security guard, Aland Etienne, who helped control access to the upper floors. Tamura waited for the next elevator to arrive in the lobby, let a woman walk safely out of the elevator, then rode it up to the 33rd-floor offices of the company that owns the building, Rudin Management. He killed a worker for that company before killing himself, officials said. Friends and family mourn killed officer Officer Didarul Islam, 36, who was guarding the building on a paid security job when he was killed, had served as a police officer in New York City for over three years. He was an immigrant from Bangladesh and was working a department-approved building security job when he was shot. Islam leaves a pregnant wife and two children. Friends and family stopped by their Bronx home on Tuesday to drop off food and pay their respects. 'He was a very friendly guy and a hardworking guy,' said Tanjim Talukdar, who knew him best from Friday prayers. 'Whenever I see him or he sees me, he says, 'How are you, my brother?'' ___ Jennifer Peltz, Cedar Attanasio, Dave Collins And John Seewer, The Associated Press Collins reported from Hartford, Connecticut, and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press reporters Michael Balsamo, Philip Marcelo and Julie Walker in New York; Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia, Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida; Mike Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
