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Podcast: The Best of the Sports Shop
Episode: Manhattan Shooter Left Suicide Note Blaming NFL, Claimed Brain Trauma Linked to Football
Description: Reese, Pam and Alex discuss the shooting that took place in Manhattan, NY yesterday.
Yesterday, a tragic shooting rocked Midtown Manhattan. The attack took place at 345 Park Avenue, where Shane Devon Tamura, a 27-year-old former high school football player from Las Vegas, opened fire in a building housing major corporate tenants, including the NFL headquarters. The rampage left four civilians dead—including an off-duty NYPD officer—and ended with Tamura’s suicide on the 33rd floor. Tamura left behind a suicide note expressing grievances about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) linked to football and suggested the NFL was a spec...