{"id":104955,"date":"2025-07-30T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104955\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:56:25","slug":"nyc-gunman-shane-tamuras-brain-will-be-studied-after-shooter-blamed-cte-for-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104955\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC gunman Shane Tamura’s brain will be studied after shooter blamed CTE for massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan mass shooter Shane Tamura\u2019s brain will be examined<\/a> as part of his autopsy after the crazed gunman <\/a>blamed an apparent football-related head injury for the deadly attack, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n

The New York City Medical Examiner\u2019s Office determined the 27-year-old gunman died by suicide after his heinous rampage<\/a> inside a Midtown office building<\/a>, which is home to the NFL\u2019s headquarters,<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jason Graham, chief medical examiner, speaking at a press briefing. Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Notes found on the body of Shane Tamura. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Shane Tamura\u2019s brain will be examined as part of his autopsy after he blamed chronic traumatic encephalopathy for the deadly attack, officials confirmed. DailyNews PrepSports<\/p>\n

Tamura\u2019s official cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot<\/a> wound to his torso, according to the medical examiner.<\/p>\n

No ruling has been made yet on whether Tamura was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),<\/a> which he claimed to have had.<\/p>\n

Tamura\u2019s official cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his torso, according to the medical examiner. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

No ruling has been made yet on whether Tamura was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which he claimed to have had. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

The New York City Medical Examiner\u2019s Office determined the 27-year-old gunman died by suicide after his heinous rampage inside a Midtown office building, which is home to the NFL\u2019s headquarters, on Monday night. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The medical examiner said a neuropathology expert <\/a>was in the process of carrying out \u201cadditional testing\u201d on the gunman\u2019s brain for the \u201ccomplete autopsy record.\u201d<\/p>\n

CTE \u2014 a degenerative brain disease that\u2019s caused by concussions and repeated blows to the head<\/a> \u2014 can only be diagnosed by examining a brain after death.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the medical examiner also determined the cause of death for each of the shooter\u2019s four victims.<\/p>\n

Cornell University graduate and Rudin associate Julia A. Hyman, 24. JuliaHyman\/linkedin<\/p>\n

NYPD Officer Didarul Islam. NYPD<\/p>\n

Security guard Aland Etienne. Facebook \/ Gathmand Etienne<\/p>\n

Wesley LePatner, an executive at Blackstone Inc. AP<\/p>\n

NYPD Officer Didarul Islam<\/a>, Blackstone exec Wesley LePatner<\/a>, security guard Aland Etienne <\/a>and Rudin employee Julia Hyman<\/a> all died from gunshot wounds to their torsos, the office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan mass shooter Shane Tamura\u2019s brain will be examined as part of his autopsy after the crazed gunman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5249,5248,65743,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-104955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-midtown-nyc-shooting-2025","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114942534520417265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}