Investigators are investigating whether the Las Vegas man who conducted a deadly shooting frenzy in Manhattan on Monday aimed at the National Football League because the Gunner is a former Los Angeles high school football player.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the gunman, identified by law enforcement as 27, was trying to target the NFL but occupied the wrong elevator.
Law enforcement officers said the gunman carried an M4 assault rifle at around 6:25 pm on Monday, with his right hand on the left and right, and the gunman entered the 44-story office building on Park Avenue, which is the 44-story office building on Park Avenue. He immediately opened fire in the hall, first shooting at a New York Police Department official, then a woman who covered her back posts and shot behind security guards behind a security desk.
After spraying more gunfire in the hall, the gunman entered the elevator and went to the 33rd floor, which houses Rudin Managing Real Estate Company. He then walked around the floor, shooting, shooting and killing another person, then walked down the corridor and shot deadly in front of his chest. Tamura was killed in the attack.
“Mr. Tamula has records in the history of mental health,” New York City Police Chief Jessica Tisch said in a press conference Monday night. “His motivation is still under investigation and we are working to understand why he targets this particular location.”
Tamura, a famous college high school player at Golden Valley High School in Santa Clarita and Granada Hills Charter in San Fernando Valley, has a suicide ticket in his back pocket saying he has a CTE and says he has a brain disease associated with head trauma, CNN reported that the source of that knowledge is reportedly a study.
In a brief three-page box office, he seems to blame football for his problems, referring to former Pittsburgh Steelers player Terry Long, who died of suicide after drinking Antifreeze in 2005 and expressed dissatisfaction with the NFL.
“Terry Long gave me CTE, which gave me a gallon of antifreeze,” the Gunner allegedly wrote. “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squeeze you.”
“Study my brain, please sorry, tell Rick, I’m sorry for everything.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly said an NFL employee was seriously injured in the attack. A person with knowledge of the situation told the Times that most NFL employees had left when they entered the building and that the building had been cleared from top to bottom by police, from the floor.
Tamura played football at Golden Valley High School in the rural community of Santa Clarita for three years before moving to the 2015 high school.
Golden Valley coach Dan Kelley said he remembers Tamura being a “good athlete.”
According to MaxPreps, the 5-foot-7-foot-height, 140-pound player had 126 carrys, 600 yards and five touchdowns in his senior year in Granada Hills. He also won several “Game Player” awards.
Videos scattered on social media in 2015 were circulated on social media on Monday night, showing Tamula, a high school football player, celebrated the victory of the Granada Hills.
Tamura was praised by a reporter from the Los Angeles Daily News as a “outstanding run” after a post-match interview, asking how the team passed.
“We definitely have to keep disciplined,” Tamula said. “Our coaches keep saying, ‘Don’t look up. Don’t look up.’ … We just need to be disciplined and unite as a team.”
The reporter pointed out that Tamura had several touchdowns, including a key in the fourth quarter, and was less than four minutes away.
Tamuragraded in 2016, Maxpreps said.
The initial investigation revealed that Tamura traveled to New York from Las Vegas to drive the black BMW off-road country through Colorado, Nebraska and New Jersey over the weekend.
Law enforcement said police searched the gunman’s double gunman between 51st and 52nd Streets and found a rifle box with ammunition, full revolver ammunition and magazine, a backpack and Tamula’s backpack and medicine. There are no explosives inside.
Tichi said the 36-year-old Deidal Islam has been working for four years, said the murdered policeman. He married two young sons, his wife is pregnant with a third child.
Associated Press and Times Workers Eric Sondheimer and Sam Farmer Contributed to this report.
