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A shooting in a Park Avenue office building in New York left four people dead on Monday (July 28), per Huffpost.
The suspected gunman, 34-year-old Shane Tamura, shot himself after opening fire in the high-rise building on Park Avenue.
Tamura reportedly left a note in his pocket linking football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease associated with reported head trauma that has been found in former players, to the shooting.
Authorities are investigating whether Tamura targeted the Park Avenue building because it houses the NFL headquarters. League Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that "one NFL employee was seriously injured," though the shooting did not occur on the floors housing NFL offices.
Tamura had recently worked as a security guard in Las Vegas, but was reportedly a star football player at Golden Valley High School and Granada Hills Charter High School in California.
"Could I have done more?" Walter Roby, Tamura’s former coach at Granada Hills High School, questioned. "Could I have helped the kid? Could I have reached out to him or could you reach out to me? It’s just a lot of things I’m trying to process right now."
In his note, Tamura reportedly asked for his brain to be studied following his death.
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