Gunman targeting NFL's New York offices suffered from traumatic brain injury

27/9/2025 6:30

The man who killed four people at a midtown Manhattan office tower housing the NFL's head office suffered from a traumatic brain injury commonly associated with football players, the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office said on Friday.



Shane Tamura, 27, a Las Vegas casino security officer and former high-school football player, had left a “suicide note” blaming the National Football League for his degenerative brain condition.



According to the report The findings correspond with the classification of low-stage CTE, according to current consensus criteria.”



In the deadliest attack in New York City in a quarter century, Tamura killed two security guards, one of them a city police officer on security detail, as well as a real estate executive and a business management associate, before taking his own life on the 33rd floor of the Park Avenue skyscraper.



Even though the gunman failed to reach the league's offices, an employee of the NFL was gravely wounded by Tamura in the lobby of the building.