The man who killed four people with a semi-automatic rifle while rampaging through a Midtown Manhattan office tower carried a note with him that appeared to blame the National Football League for a degenerative brain disease he said he had, New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday.
Police have identified the shooter as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident and former high school football player and said he had a history of mental illness.
Tamura killed two security officers and two office workers before ending the Monday evening massacre by shooting himself in the chest on the 33rd floor of the Park Avenue skyscraper. It was the deadliest mass shooting in New York City in a quarter of a century.
The NFL has its headquarters in the skyscraper alongside major financial firms, but Tamura used the wrong elevator bank and ended up in the offices of Rudin Management, a real estate company that owns the building, where he killed one Rudin employee, the mayor said.
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