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   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   NYC mass shooter Shane Tamura found with   
   29 Jul 25 21:22:13   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.nationalism.black, sac.politics   
   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.killers.mass   
   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/nyc-gunman-shane-tamura-reportedly-   
   found-with-note-hinting-at-possible-motive-for-park-ave-skyscraper-   
   shooting-sources/   
      
   The crazed gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three other people in a   
   Midtown skyscraper on Monday evening was carrying a note in his pocket   
   that expressed grievances with the NFL and claimed he suffered from CTE —   
   a brain injury linked to head trauma, sources told The Post.   
      
   Shane Tamura, 27, cited the NFL in the writings, which were found after he   
   fatally shot himself in the chest on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Ave. — a   
   swanky skyscraper that houses the football league’s corporate   
   headquarters.   
      
   The mentally ill man wanted to shoot up the NFL’s offices on levels 5   
   through 8 — but “mistakenly went up the wrong elevator banks” and ended up   
   on a higher floor, Mayor Eric Adams confirmed Tuesday.   
      
   In his three-page ramblings, Tamura blamed football for his apparent   
   struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic   
   encephalopathy (CTE) and pleaded for his brain to be studied in the wake   
   of the massacre, law enforcement sources said.   
      
   He also specifically referred to Terry Long, the former Pittsburgh   
   Steelers player who was diagnosed with CTE after downing antifreeze to   
   kill himself 20 years ago.   
      
   “Terry Long, football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of   
   antifreeze,” the note stated, according to sources.   
      
   “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash you.”   
      
   “Please study brain for CTE. I’m sorry. The league knowingly concealed the   
   dangers to our brains to maximize profits,” Tamura continued. “They failed   
   us.”   
      
   The NFL has offices elsewhere in the Park Avenue high-rise, and one of its   
   employees was among those shot, though not fatally.   
      
   How the shooting unfolded   
   Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m.   
   Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd   
   streets with an M4 rifle.   
   He enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer   
   Didarul Islam, 36, dead.   
   Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, sprays   
   more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a   
   security guard crouching at his desk.   
   One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in   
   critical but stable condition.   
   The gunman allows a woman to walk out of the elevators unharmed before   
   heading up to the 33rd floor, where building owner Rudin Properties’   
   offices are located, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he   
   traveled.”   
   One man is shot and killed on that floor before Tamura shoots himself in   
   the chest.   
   It’s unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch   
   posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone   
   shooter has been neutralized.”   
   Adams confirmed Tamura’s note “alluded to having CTE from playing NFL” —   
   even though “he never played in the NFL.”   
      
   “It appears as though he was going after the employees of the NFL,” the   
   mayor confirmed on Fox 5.   
      
   “We’re still going through the suicide note to zero in on the exact   
   reason, but at this time it appears as if it’s something attached to his   
   belief he experienced CTE from the NFL.”   
      
   Shortly after the shooting, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch directly   
   called executives at Blackstone — another notable tenant in the skyscraper   
   — to inform them that they weren’t the intended targets, sources said.   
      
   Tamura, who lived in Las Vegas and had a known mental health history   
   there, initially opened fire in the building’s lobby before taking the   
   elevator to the 33rd floor, where he turned the gun on himself.   
      
   He also shot a fifth victim in the lobby of the building who survived the   
   attack, police said.   
      
   The surviving victim appears to be an NFL employee, as the league’s   
   commissioner, Roger Goodell, told staffers in a letter that one of their   
   own had been “seriously injured” in the shooting.   
      
   Tamura, who worked as a security guard at a Las Vegas casino, never played   
   professional football — despite referencing CTE and the league as his   
   apparent motive.   
      
   He played high school football in California, where he was described as a   
   standout player.   
      
   “It looked like the sky was the limit, and then it wasn’t anymore,” a   
   former classmate, Caleb Clarke, told NBC News.   
      
   Tamura graduated from Golden Valley High in 2016.   
      
   Ahead of his senior year, his coach told the Los Angeles Times that he   
   expected “big things” from the running back and other star players on the   
   team.   
      
      
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