29-7-2025
A mentally disturbed former National Football League player has killed four people in a New York highrise office block.
According to the Mayor of New York Eric Adams the gun man was targeting the headquarters of the NFL but took the wrong lift.
“Shane Tamura, from Las Vegas, accidentally entered the wrong set of lifts.
“We have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL agency that was located in the building,” Mr Adams told MSNBC.
A police officer, Didarul Islam, was among those killed on Monday. He was married with two children with another on the way.
Police said Tamura had a history of mental illness, and a rambling note found on his body suggested he had a grievance against the NFL over an unsubstantiated claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He had played football in high school in California nearly two decades ago.
The note claimed he had been suffering from CTE — the degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football — and said his brain should be studied after he died, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.