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Daily Mail
31-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Midtown mass shooter's chilling $1,400 murder weapon is pictured... as it's revealed who he bought it from
The $1,400 M4 assault rifle New York City mass shooter Shane Tamura used to kill four people inside a Midtown Manhattan office building still had visible blood stains on it when authorities revealed Wednesday how he obtained the deadly weapon. Tamura, 27, bought the rifle equipped with a scope, a barrel flashlight and a sling from his supervisor at the Horseshoe Las Vegas Center Strip Hotel & Casino, where he worked in surveillance, police said. His supervisor, identified in the gunman's three-page note as 'Rick,' purchased the weapon legally before he resold it Tamura, the New York Daily News reports. Rick is now cooperating with authorities in New York City who are continuing to comb through Tamura's life in Las Vegas in an effort to determine what may have led the former high school football star to trek cross country and carry out his attack on the National Football League. Authorities said on Wednesday they have already recovered anti-epileptic, anti-psychotic and anti-inflammatory medications from his upscale Las Vegas home. Police also found a tripod, a single rifle round, nearly 100 bullets for a 9mm handgun and an empty box for a revolver - which was recovered from Tamura's BMW near the scene of the shooting, along with a damning note accusing the NFL of burying the dangers of playing football to maximize profits. In the three-page manifesto, Tamura expressed his grievances with the National Football League over its handling of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is linked to sports in which players experience repeated head impacts. 'Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of antifreeze,' Tamura wrote, according to CNN. 'You can't go against the NFL, they'll squash you.' The shooter was referring to former Pittsburgh Steeler Terry Long, who committed suicide by drinking antifreeze in 2006 after suffering from CTE. 'Study my brain please,' he begged authorities, as he apologized to Rick 'for everything.' The league is headquartered on the fifth floor of the building at 345 Park Avenue, which Tamura was seen strolling into Monday evening with the M4 rifle in hand. When he then reached the lobby at around 6.30pm, Tamura opened fire - shooting NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, 36, in the back, as well as Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner, 44, who was seeking cover behind a pillar. Security guard Aland Etienne, 46, was also killed in the lobby while hiding behind a desk and NFL employee Craig Clementi was struck in the back, but was able to warn others inside the building about the gunman. He is now in stable condition. By the time Tamura got up to the 33rd floor - the offices of Rudin Management, which runs the building and other offices across the Big Apple - employees barricaded themselves inside while others were seen rushing out the skyscraper with their hands up. Still, Tamura was able to shoot and kill Rudin employee Julia Hyman, 27, before he took his own life. It is believed that the shooting was premeditated and suicidal, with Tamura leaving his parents a heartbreaking letter before he took off on his cross country trek. 'When I look into you and Dad's eyes, all I see is disappointment,' he wrote. 'love you Mama. I'm sorry.' By the time casino employees noticed Tamura failed to show up to work, the would-be gunman had already driven through Colorado. Along his voyage, Tamura also received two phone calls - the first at 7.41pm Sunday from Geneseo, Illinois. He received a second call from someone in Parsippany, New Jersey at around 5.19pm on Monday - just about one hour before he opened fire. Both calls were under a minute long and the callers' identities are known to authorities, police announced on Wednesday. As the investigation into Tamura's actions now continues, his brain will be examined as part of an autopsy, New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham said. He noted that a neuropathology expert is already in the process of carrying out 'additional testing' to determine whether Tamura may have suffered from CTE, as he was once a promising high school running back, according to the New York Post. Tamura never continued his football career in college or in a professional setting, however, and his former high school football coach told the Post he could not recall the shooter ever sustaining a head injury on the field.
The Guardian
30-07-2025
- The Guardian
New York skyscraper mass shooter assembled weapon himself and had concealed gun permit
The man who stormed a New York City skyscraper and shot dead four people before he took his own life early on Monday had constructed the rifle he used himself, from parts, the police have said. The authorities are questioning an associate of the suspect about supplying components of the AR-15-style assault rifle used in the attack. The New York City police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said that the suspect in the attack in Manhattan, Shane Tamura, 27, had 'assembled' the weapon himself that he used in the shooting. The suspect also had a permit to carry a concealed gun and had used the permit to purchase another firearm, a revolver, last month, the police said. Investigating the sources of his weapons 'is part of a larger effort to trace Mr Tamura's steps from Las Vegas to New York City', Tisch said. Tamura travelled from his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Manhattan by car. A search of his vehicle uncovered a loaded revolver, ammunition and prescription medicines. Public records show that he had acquired a security guard's license, and reports suggest he had been working security at a Las Vegas casino, in the surveillance department. Tamura didn't show up to work his usual shift on Sunday at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. Instead, authorities say, he got in his car and drove across the country to carry out a mass shooting inside the skyscraper that houses the National Football League (NFL) headquarters. A fifth person, an NFL employee, was wounded in the Monday attack. As investigators work to uncover a motive, questions are being raised about how a man with a documented history of mental health problems – and a recent arrest for erratic behavior at another casino – ended up working in one of the most security-sensitive jobs in Las Vegas. Caesars Entertainment, which owns the Horseshoe, confirmed Tamura's employment but has yet to disclose the nature of his role or whether he was authorized to carry a weapon. A spokesperson didn't respond to emails asking whether Tamura's job required him to hold a valid work card from the state private investigators licensing board, which is needed to work as a private security officer in Nevada. State licensing records show Tamura previously held a state-issued license as a private security officer, though it had expired in December. Authorities have not provided more specific information about Tamura's psychiatric history but are investigating claims he included in a handwritten note he left behind, in which he said he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma. Officials said he had intended to target the offices of the NFL, which he accused of hiding the dangers of brain injuries linked to contact sports, but he took the wrong elevator. Tamura's family members did not respond to messages seeking comment. No one answered a knock at the door of his family's Las Vegas home on Monday. Tamura didn't play professional football but was a standout running back during his high school years in southern California, where he was born, according to local news accounts at the time, including one that described his abilities as 'lightning in a bottle'. One of his former coaches, Walter Roby, said he did not remember Tamura sustaining any head injuries in his playing days. He recalled an ankle injury, 'but that was the extent of it'. 'He was a quiet dude, soft spoken, humble and led by his work ethic more than anything else,' Roby told the Associated Press. 'His actions on the field were dynamic.'
New York Times
30-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
An Office Tower Shooting Shocks New York
Good morning. It's Wednesday. We'll get details about the shootings in a Midtown Manhattan office building by a 27-year-old man with an assault rifle. We'll also go for a ride along the route of an old freight line that is expected to get new life as a passenger rail line. On Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stood in front of tables full of guns that the police had confiscated, a sampling of the thousands of illegal firearms they said had been taken off the streets. The fight against gun violence would continue, the mayor said, until 'we stop the sea of violence that we are experiencing in our city.' Then, on Monday, a man carrying an assault rifle brazenly walked into an office building in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire — even though New York has some of the nation's toughest gun laws, even though the office building that the assailant targeted had more security than many others have and even though similar targeted violence in Manhattan is almost unheard of. The safeguards were not enough to stop the gunman, Shane Devon Tamura, 27. He bought his AR-15-style rifle in Nevada, where it was legal, and drove to New York, where it was not. The police said four people were killed, among them an off-duty New York City police officer who was moonlighting, providing security. A fifth person was wounded. 'We have to ask ourselves: Is there a safe building anywhere if we are allowing AR-15s to be sold in so many states?' Nick Suplina, a senior vice president of the Manhattan-based advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, told me. 'Unfortunately we're only as safe as the state with the weakest gun laws' — which, he added, Nevada was not. On his way to New York, Tamura drove through several states, including Colorado and New Jersey, where assault weapons have been banned, and others where they are legal. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Bloomberg
29-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg Daybreak: Deadly NYC Office Shooting
On today's podcast: 1) Work was winding down at 345 Park Avenue on Monday when a man strode across the public plaza just outside the Midtown Manhattan tower with an assault rifle in his hand. Within minutes, at least four people were dead, as well as the gunman, in a mass shooting in the epicenter of American finance. The harrowing scene unfolded in the 44-story, dark-glass tower that houses the offices of private equity giant Blackstone Inc., consultant KPMG, the National Football League and building landlord Rudin Management. 2) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a 90-day extension of a trade truce with China was a likely outcome with negotiations between the two countries underway in Stockholm. 3) Barclays Plc's traders turned in their best second quarter performance in three years as the volatility wrought by US President Donald Trump's trade war helped them deliver revenue that topped analyst expectations.
Bloomberg
29-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Gunman's Deadly Spree in Midtown Manhattan Spawns Evening of Fear in NYC
Work was winding down at 345 Park Avenue on Monday when a man strode across the public plaza just outside the Midtown Manhattan tower with an assault rifle in his hand. Within minutes, at least four people were dead, as well as the gunman, in a mass shooting in the epicenter of American finance. The harrowing scene unfolded in the 44-story, dark-glass tower that houses the offices of private equity giant Blackstone Inc., consultant KPMG, the National Football League and building landlord Rudin Management.
