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The Independent UK
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Gunman who killed 4 in Manhattan office tower that houses NFL had CTE, medical examiner confirms

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The man who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower this summer was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, a city medical examiner said Friday, confirming the gunman’s own self-diagnosis.

Shane Tamura, 27, had “unambiguous diagnostic evidence” of low-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, according to the New York City medical examiner.

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