Officials said on Wednesday that New York – A man who killed four people in the Manhattan office building, used the rifle used in the attack from his supervisor to his supervisor across the country.
27 -year -old Shane Tamura shot three people on Monday in the building lobby before taking a lift on the 33rd floor, killed a fourth man and then, according to police, ended his life. The building has the headquarters of the National Football League and other corporate offices.
In a note found on his body, Tamura asked to handle concerns about NFL’s old painful encephalopathy, and former high school football player claimed that he himself had degenerative brain disease, according to the police. Known as CTE, it is associated with trauma of associations and other heads.
Police said on Wednesday that at Tamura’s Las Vegas Studio apartment, investigators found a note with a distinct disturbed message. He said that the note expressed a feeling that Tamura’s parents were disappointed in them and forgiveness for his mother.
Police said they also found a psychiatric drug, an epileptic medicine and an anti -inflammatory which was given to Tamura.
The New York Police Department said that along with their movements, the detectives along with their mentality learned that they had bought a rifle and car from their supervisors on a job in the monitoring department in Horsasho Las Vegas.
The observer legally bought the AR-15-style rifle that he sold to Tamura in $ 1,400, said, he said that he had earlier erased saying that the supervisor had supplied only some parts of the rifle. It was not immediately clear whether the sales of guns were legal or not.
The police did not identify the observer, who is upcoming with him and has not been accused of any crime. Police said that Tamura had instigated him, after apologizing, in a note found in the gunman’s wallet.
As investigators worked in both New York and Las Vegas, one of the victims, real estate firm activist Julia Hyiman, was buried on Wednesday after a pack at a Manhattan Vidhanalaya, after emotional service.
Her uncle, Rob Pitman, said that 27 -year -old Bronx natives lived with “wide open eyes” and “courage and firm belief”.
Hyiman worked at Rudin Management since November, the owner of the building and the office on the 33rd floor. School officials said that a 2020 graduate from Cornell University, she was the captain of the football, swimming and lacros teams of Riverdale Country School in her senior year.
Another victim’s relatives and colleagues, security guards, remembered him at a meeting in his union office. The unarmed Atinine was shot as he worked at the lobby security desk.
“We lose a hero,” said younger brother Smith Atian. “He wore no cape. There was no fancy gear. He wore a security officer’s uniform.”
Police were preparing for the funeral for New York City police officer Didarul Islam on Thursday. A member of the force was killed for over three years, while working, in uniform, to provide protection for the building for a second job approved by a department.
The funeral for the fourth hunting system, the Wesley Leptatar, the executive of the investment firm, has not been made public.
An NFL employee who was badly injured in the attack is expected to survive.
The police department said that apart from notes and medicines in their apartments, they found a tripod for their rifle, a box for a revolver, which was found in their car in New York, and said some ammunition for both guns, the police department.
Police have said that Tamura had a history of mental illness, but he did not give details. In September 2023, he was arrested for allegedly leaving a suburban Las Vegas Casino and being asked for his ID on charges of atrocities of a rape. The prosecutors later dismissed the case.
His psychiatry history would not have prevented him from buying a revolver legally last month.
Nevada is one of the 21 states with a red-flag law that allows people to take for weapons if the courts determine that they raise risk to themselves or others. First, relatives or law enforcement should seek a so -called extreme risk safety order.
A new state law, effective this month, allows officers to seize firearms in the surrounding area immediately on the mental health crisis.
“These laws only work when someone uses them,” said Lindsay Nicols, the policy director of the Gifords Law Center to prevent gun violence.
