Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building
A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura — who shot and killed four people before taking his own life in the Manhattan building that houses the NFL headquarters in July — had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has repeatedly been found in the brains of American football players, alongside athletes from other contact sports and soldiers. The grim findings about Tamura’s brain highlight how prevalent the disea