NYC Shooter Who Targeted NFL Offices Has Been Diagnosed with CTE

NYC Shooter Who Targeted NFL Offices Posthumously Diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury CTE

Ahmad Austin Jr. Sep 26th, 2025, 4:25 pm

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The New York City shooter who targeted the NFL’s offices in Manhattan has been posthumously diagnosed with the traumatic brain injury CTE.

In late July, 27-year-old Shane Tamura opened fire in an office building at 345 Park Avenue. Tamura shot multiple people in the building’s lobby before trying to take the elevator to get to the NFL’s offices. It was later revealed that Tamura took the wrong elevator bank.

Tamura killed four people — including one police officer — before turning the rifle on himself and dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

Police later recovered a note from Tamura’s body. In th