Man who killed four people in New York City building containing NFL headquarters had CTE | New York
The New York City Medical Examination said on Friday, a Manhattan office building in July, four people and he killed himself in a Manhattan office building CTE suspected of the mass shooter suspected of the degenerative brain disease, he said.
Shane Tamura, who was 27 years old and playing football in high school, had low -stage “final diagnostic evidence” The medical examination found chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The diagnosed only after his death causes over again to be exposed to head trauma and is most commonly associated with NFL players in the USA.
“The deceased’s brain tissue, also known as CTE, found a definitive evidence of diagnosis,” he said. “Findings correspond to the classification of the low -stage CTE according to the current consensus criteria.”
After finding a note left by the attacker at the scene, the medical examination expert, the authorities found a brain examination as part of Tamura’s criminal autopsy after finding a note that mental troubles may be linked to playing football and that his brain could work for CTE.
Tamura claimed that he had suffered a traumatic brain damage and accused NFL to hide dangers of players’ brain to maximize profits ”. “Please examine my brain. I’m sorry,” he wrote.
Although he never played in NFL, the authorities said that Tamura, who went to New York from Las Vegas to New York, aims to the NFL headquarters on a different floor of the Park Avenue building.
Four people were killed in the shooting: 345 A security guard at Park Avenue, a manager, a police officer at Blackstone, and a Rudin Management.
Although CTE is mostly associated with professional athletes such as old players, boxers and hockey players, student athleteincluding those who do not do sports after high school or college.
Tamura played high school football in California about ten years ago. His family said he had already suffered from multiple jolts as well as migraine and mental illness.
Thousands of athletes, soldiers and brain trauma exposed to the brains of others Boston University CTE Center Director Dr Ann McKkee, severe impulsive behavior and the connection between the CTE is known very little and more work should be done, he said.
Lately He told the New York Times: “In frontal lobes, there is damage to decision -making and damage to the judiciary. It can also cause impulse and anger behaviors, so it is possible to have a connection between brain damage and these behaviors.”
The findings of the Medical Examination added the following: “This situation continues to develop science and CTE’s physical and mental manifestations are examined.”
