{"id":256752,"date":"2025-09-26T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:47:08","slug":"gunman-who-killed-4-in-manhattan-had-cte-medical-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256752\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman who killed 4 in Manhattan had CTE: medical examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/public-safety\/2025\/07\/30\/shooter-targeted-nfl-over-its-handling-of-head-injuries-shane-tamura-cte?asdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">man who killed four people<\/a>\u00a0inside a Manhattan office tower this summer was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, the New York City medical examiner said Friday, confirming the gunman\u2019s own self-diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Tamura, 27, had \u201cunambiguous diagnostic evidence\u201d of low-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, according to the medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shane Tamura,\u00a0who killed four people\u00a0inside a Manhattan office tower that houses the NFL this summer, was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, the New York City medical examiner said Friday<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tamura, 27, had \u201cunambiguous diagnostic evidence\u201d of low-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, according to the medical examiner<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>In a\u00a0three-page note found in his wallet, Tamura said he had CTE \u2014 diagnosable only after death \u2014 and implored those who found him: \u201cStudy my brain&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tamura, a Las Vegas casino worker, carried out the mass shooting on July 28, spraying bullets into the lobby of a Manhattan office building housing the headquarters of the NFL, which he accused of hiding evidence of the brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Among\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/victims-office-shooting-new-york-nfl-2869b5bb31e6480dc2c20175d270ad88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the dead<\/a>\u00a0were a police officer, a security guard and two people who worked at companies in the building. An NFL employee was badly wounded but survived.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/manhattan-office-shooting-nfl-nyc-d32bec88dfe208af1a413cec02034a14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-page note found in his wallet<\/a>, Tamura said he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy \u2014 diagnosable only after death \u2014 and implored those who found him: \u201cStudy my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among his grievances against the NFL was a claim that the league put its profits ahead of player safety by concealing the harm CTE, and football, can cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0man who killed four people\u00a0inside a Manhattan office tower this summer was suffering from a degenerative brain disease,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[24166,5229,12170,7448,1578,135093,5249,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5292,13570,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-256752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-public-safety","11":"tag-app-top-stories","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-ctv-for-your-consideration","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-public-safety","23":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272092563715771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256752","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=256752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}