The crazed gunman who killed four people in Monday’s Manhattan massacre thanked a documentary on CTE brain injuries and listed off the names of several prominent neuroscientists in his apparent suicide note, sources told The Post.
Shane Tamura, 27, had the rambling writings stashed in his wallet when he stormed the Midtown skyscraper at 345 Park Ave., which is home to the NFL’s corporate headquarters, the sources said.
How the shooting unfolded
- Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m.
- Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle.
- He enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allows 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 is shot and killed on that floor before Tamura shoots himself in the chest.
- It’s unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
Tamura, who claimed he suffered from CTE, had scrawled “frontline documentary” on one of the pages — an apparent reference to the “League of Denial” doc that probed the links between the NFL and the brain injury linked to head trauma.
The note also made mention of the “Fainaru brothers” — the two ESPN reporters who co-wrote the “League of Denial” book.
Elsewhere, the names of several doctors were featured on one page, including Dr. Ann McKee, who is the Chief of Neuropathology at BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Dr. Christopher Nowinski, the co-founder of Boston University’s CTE Center.
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