Manhattan shooting latest: 4 dead in NFL HQ building as cops identify gunman as former high school football star
At least four people were killed and another critically injured after a lone gunman stormed an office tower in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire, before turning the gun on himself, officials say.
Police said that Shane Tamura, 27, burst into the 44-story building at 345 Park Avenue – home to offices for the NFL and investment giant Blackstone – shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Monday, carrying an AR-15-style rifle. The suspect “immediately” opened fire, “spraying” the lobby with gunfire, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.
Tamura, a former high school football star from Southern California, left Las Vegas on Saturday, Tisch said. He died in Rudin Management’s 33rd-floor offices from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, she added.
New York City police officer Didarul Islam was among those killed in the crossfire. A Blackstone executive was also shot dead in the tower’s lobby, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The NFL said one of its employees was critically injured.
Investigators allegedly found a note on Tamura claiming that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease linked to head trauma, and asked that his brain be studied, a source told CNN.
