NYC gunman targeted NFL over alleged brain injury, mayor says

A shooter who Killed four people And then in the office building of Manhattan on Monday he aimed at NFL's offices, said New Yorka mayor Eric Adams.

Adams, speaking on Tuesday, said that the authorities “have reasons to believe that he was focused on NFL,” in which there are offices in the building where shooting occurred. The shooter, Shane Tamura, left the note, claiming that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, brain disease associated with contact sports, such as football.

In accordance with Fox 11 laTamura ran in high school at charter school Granada Hills in Los -Angeles.

Adams Said CNN That the city’s medical expert will call to check the militant on CTE, which can be diagnosed only after death by studying brain tissue.

In his note, Tamura criticized NFL and referred to Terry Long, a former NFL player, who was diagnosed with CTE and died of suicide in 2005.

In the noteTamura repeatedly apologized and asked for his body to be studied for CTE. He shot in the chest instead of his head.

“Study my brain, please,” the note says. “I'm sorry.”

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Adams said that investigators believe that the militant entered one of the buildings of the building without access to the NFL offices. Instead, Tamura was in Rudin on the 33rd floor, where his body was later found.

One of the victims was Didarul Islam, an officer of the police department in New York. Adams ordered All flags in city buildings to fly in half of the state in honor of it.

The other two killed were Wesley Lepattner, Senior Executive Director of the Blackstone investment company, and Aland Etienne, a guard in the building. At the request of the family, the name of the fourth victim is not available. The fifth man, an employee of the NFL, was injured.

Governor New Yorka Katie Wil said that the incident supports the case of more stringent weapons.

“In New York, there are one of the strongest laws on weapons in the country,” I wanted In the statementThe field “But our laws go so far when the AR-15 can be obtained in the state with weak laws on weapons and brought to New York to commit mass killings.”