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A bloody massacre rocked Manhattan, where a 27-year-old Las Vegas man killed four people with a semi-automatic rifle inside a Park Avenue office tower before ending his own life with a bullet to the chest.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the perpetrator, Shane Tamura, carried a note blaming the National Football League (NFL) for a degenerative brain disease he believed he had developed as a result of playing contact sports.
Target: NFL headquarters, but missed the elevator
Investigators believe Tamura intended to hit the NFL headquarters in the same skyscraper, but instead entered a different elevator block and ended up in the offices of Rudin Management, the company that owns the building. There, he killed an office worker and two security officers before opening fire on another employee of the financial firm in the building.
According to Adams, the note found in the perpetrator's wallet mentioned CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) — a brain injury associated with contact sports, often linked to aggression, behavioral disorders and dementia. "He seemed to believe he had CTE and blamed the NFL for his injury," Adams told CBS News.
CTE is a serious disease caused by repeated blows to the head and currently has no known cure. Many former professional American players have suffered fatal consequences from the disease, leading to a massive lawsuit against the NFL, which has paid out over $1 billion in damages.
A career cut short
Although Tamura never played in the NFL, records show he played football at a California high school and was a first-team player until graduating in 2016. In his obituary, he wrote that brain injuries had cut short his career and that the NFL had not done enough to address the risks of CTE, Bloomberg News reported.
The event has opened debate on the mental health of athletes, the responsibility of professional leagues and the danger of firearms in the United States, becoming part of a broader discourse on the impact of contact sports on the long-term health of players.
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