Four dead after a man opened fire at the NFL headquarters building in Manhattan

BarcelonaAt least four people were killed, including a police officer, when a gunman opened fire with a rifle in a Manhattan, New York City, building. The gunman, identified as 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura, who had come to the city from Las Vegas, shot himself shortly afterward. According to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the target was the National Football League (NFL) headquarters in the building attacked, which the gunman claimed had a head wound, but he may have been in the wrong apartment.

The gunman carried a note blaming CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a brain disease caused by head trauma, for his mental illness. Tamura played football as a teenager, but not in the NFL, former teammates told US media.

The man, captured on surveillance cameras in the area, got out of a double-parked black BMW with a rifle in his hand and entered 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan, the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL) and other companies. In the lobby, he began shooting, killing New York City police officer Didarul Islam, who was working security in the building at the time of the attack. He also shot a woman who had hidden behind a column there, according to New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. He then went up to the 33rd floor looking for the NFL headquarters, but took the wrong elevator. On that floor, he continued shooting. The shooting ended when the assailant shot himself in the chest. In addition to the police officer, a woman and two men also died in the shooting.

"We have lost four lives in another senseless act of gun violence, including that of Officer Islam, a member of the New York City Police Department," Mayor Eric Adams announced shortly afterward. He had been on the force for about three and a half years, a "true hero." He came to the United States as an immigrant from Bangladesh.