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The gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three other people in a Midtown building on Monday evening was apparently carrying a note that offered clues into his possible motive, sources told The Post.
Shane Tamura, 27, cited the NFL in the purported note, which was found after he turned the gun on himself on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Ave. – a skyscraper that houses the football league’s headquarters.
In the alleged note, which was several pages long, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.
The shooter, who fatally shot himself in the chest, also asked that his brain be studied in the apparent note, according to the sources.
NYC Midtown shooting timeline
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch provided a timeline of events leading up to Monday’s mass shooting:
- Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Avenue started coming in at around 6:28 p.m.
- The shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, was seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd Street, with an M4 rifle.
- He then walks towards the skyscraper, enters the lobby and turns right, where he shot police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura then gunned down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, as he sprayed more bullets and walked toward the elevator bank — where he shot dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reported being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allowed 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 was shot and killed on that floor.
- “He then proceeds down a hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” ending his rampage.
- It’s unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
The NFL has offices on the 5th floor of the Park Avenue high-rise, though Tamura wound up taking the elevator up to the 33rd floor, where he turned the gun on himself after the massacre.
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