New York City’s police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has identified Shane Tamura, a Las Vegas casino security officer and former high school football player with a documented history of mental illness, as the gunman who shot four people dead with an assault-style rifle inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. Tamura killed two security guards, one of them a city policeman on security detail, as well as a real estate executive and a business management associate, before taking his own life on the 33rd floor of the Park Avenue skyscraper. An employee of the NFL, which has its headquarters in the building alongside offices of major financial firms, was gravely wounded in the attack, which was the deadliest mass shooting in New York City in a quarter century. The NFL has paid more than $1 billion to settle concussion-related lawsuits and opened new tab with thousands of retired players after the deaths of several high-profile players.
Tamura appeared to have driven to Manhattan from Las Vegas over three days and to have acted alone, according to Tisch. Security video circulated by police showed a man walking from a double-parked car into the Park Avenue tower carrying what police identified as an M4 Carbine, a large semi-automatic rifle popular with civilian U.S. gun enthusiasts that is modeled on a fully automatic rifle used by the U.S. military. In Nevada, unlike New York, no permit is needed to buy a rifle or carry it openly in public.
