WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The gunman who opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building left a note that appeared to blame the National Football League
for his brain injury, New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday.
"He did have a note on him. The note alluded to that he felt he had CTE, a known brain injury for those who participate in contact sports. He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury," Adams said in an interview with "CBS Mornings."
Gunman Shane Tamura, 27, brought the carnage to an end not long after it began on Monday evening by fatally shooting himself in the chest on the 33rd floor of the Park Avenue skyscraper. The building houses NFL headquarters.
Adams said the preliminary investigation shows the gunman took the wrong elevator bank and, instead of getting to NFL headquarters, ended up at Rudin Management, which owns the building at 345 Park Avenue.
"That is where he carried out additional shootings and took the lives of additional employees," Adams said on CBS.
A security staffer remained hospitalized in critical condition, Adams said. The gunman shot a woman in the lobby, then a security guard who was hiding behind the counter, he said.
In what Adams called an "uncanny episode," the gunman allowed a woman to walk past him without shooting before taking the elevator up to Rudin and discharging multiple rounds there.
He said Rudin management had a safe room on each floor, which doubled as a bathroom. It was unclear whether anyone was in there at the time.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan Heavey and Nick Zieminski)
