Gunman who killed 4 at Manhattan office building was targeting NFL headquarters, mayor says

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By PHILIP MARCELO and ERIC TUCKER
Updated 7:09 AM CDT, July 29, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator.

Investigators believe Shane Tamura was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people in the building’s lobby but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks, Adams said in interviews on Tuesday.

Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed. Police said Tamura had a history of mental illness, and a rambling note found on his body suggested he had a grievance against the NFL over an unsubstantiated claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He had played football in high school in California nearly two decades ago.

The note claimed he had been suffering from CTE — the degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football — and said his brain should be studied after he died, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.



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[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. Which explains...

...why he shot himself in the chest instead of using his handgun to shoot himself in the head.

[Lovie777]

2. And yet he was able to obtain killing machine(s).................

don't know the full story at this time. Prayers for the families, R.I.P. for the dead.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Uncivilized due to mental instability

but armed to the teeth!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Instead of rounding up and jailing immigrants who have committed no crimes

More lives would be saved by not allowing these mentally unstable individuals to own guns.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Or, Hell, just arrest anyone who carries a long gun into an occupied building (I guess that's what police tried to do).

Open carry provides the opportunity for the gun-obsessed to carry their sweet babies to the grocery store "as is their right", and no one will know until it's too late that that's the day they decide to listen to a different voice in their head for a change.

(I realize this wasn't an open carry situation, but I get sick of seeing these thanatophiles toting their death machines in public spaces as if that weren't totally flaming-ass crazy. Or they just like crazy.)

[MichMan]

6. The perpetrator in the Traverse City Michigan Wal Mart stabbing was mentally ill

Used a pocket knife and stabbed 11 people. Heard he he was arrested previously a couple dozen times and was charged a couple years ago with mutilation of a corpse. Found not guilty due to mental insanity and was released.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Released to a mental institution I hope.

[Clouds Passing]

8. The victims