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New York gunman left note blaming NFL for brain injury
The Guardian
|July 30, 2025
The gunman identified in the mass shooting in New York on Monday that killed four people – including a police officer – was a former American high school football player who left a note complaining that the sport had given him the brain injury known as CTE.
Detectives are still trying to determine the motive behind 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura's shooting spree in 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan on Monday. It ranks as the deadliest firearms attack in New York City in a quarter of a century.
Tamura shot and killed an off-duty police officer, Didarul Islam, 36, and three others. He also shot and seriously injured an employee of the National Football League (NFL), which has corporate offices in the skyscraper. The New York police department (NYPD) is investigating whether he was targeting the NFL, having blamed the organization for his perceived brain injuries.
At the end of the attack, Tamura rode an elevator up to the 33rd floor, where he killed a fourth person before taking his own life in the offices of the real estate company Rudin Management, which owns the building.
This story is from the July 30, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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