By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
NEW YORK (AP) — The previous highschool soccer participant who killed four people inside a Manhattan workplace tower that homes the headquarters of the NFL, and who blamed the league for hiding the risks of mind accidents, was affected by the degenerative mind illness CTE, New York’s health worker stated Friday.
Shane Tamura, 27, had “unambiguous diagnostic proof” of low-stage continual traumatic encephalopathy, generally often called CTE, in response to the New York Metropolis health worker.
Tamura, a Las Vegas on line casino employee, shot himself within the chest after spraying bullets into the Manhattan workplace constructing on July 28, killing four people, together with a police officer, a safety guard and two individuals who labored at firms within the constructing.
He had traveled throughout the nation intending to focus on the NFL workplace, officers stated, however took the incorrect elevator.
Amongst the dead had been a police officer, a safety guard and two individuals who labored at firms within the constructing. An NFL worker was badly wounded however survived.
In a three-page note found in his wallet, Tamura stated he had continual traumatic encephalopathy — diagnosable solely after loss of life — and implored those that discovered him: “Examine my mind.”
Amongst his grievances towards the NFL was a declare that the league put its income forward of participant security by concealing the hurt CTE, and soccer, could cause.
“There isn’t a justification for the horrific and mindless acts that happened,” an NFL spokesperson stated in response to the findings. “Because the health worker notes ‘the science round this situation continues to evolve, and the bodily and psychological manifestations of CTE stay beneath examine.’”
The illness impacts areas of the mind concerned with regulating behavior and emotions. It has been linked to concussions and different head trauma related to contact sports activities, with proof of the illness present in each skilled and highschool athletes.
After greater than a decade of denial, the NFL conceded the hyperlink between soccer and CTE in 2016 testimony earlier than Congress, and has to date paid greater than $1.4 billion to retired gamers to settle concussion-related claims.
Tamura performed highschool soccer in California a decade in the past however by no means performed within the NFL.
Police have stated Tamura had a historical past of psychological sickness. In September 2023, he was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing cost after allegedly being informed to go away a suburban Las Vegas on line casino and changing into agitated at being requested for his ID. Prosecutors later dismissed the case.
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