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New York Mass Shooter Blamed NFL For His Brain Injuries

New York's mayor says the man who shot dead four people in a skyscraper was apparently targeting the NFL for brain injuries he believed he suffered playing American football (Credit: AFP)

A man who killed four people, then committed suicide in a New York skyscraper, may have been targeting the NFL offices there because he blamed the American football league for brain injuries he said he suffered, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

The revelation that the killer, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, carried a note referring to the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), offered the first possible motive for the shootings late Monday that brought central Manhattan to a standstill.

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