The gunman who blamed the American Football Association to hide the risk of brain injury was CTE: the medical examiner

The medical examiner in New York said on Friday that the former high school football player who killed four people inside the Manhattan Office Tower includes the headquarters of the American Football Association, which blamed the Association of Empty Incurms, suffers from CTE.

Laen Tamura, 27, was “unambiguous diagnostic evidence” of low -stages chronic brain disease, known as CTE, according to New York Medical City examinations.

Tamura, a casino worker in Las Vegas, shot himself in his chest after spraying the Manhattan Office building on July 28, Four people were killedIncluding a police officer, security guard and two people who worked in companies in the building.

Officials said he traveled across the country, intending to target the US Football Association office, but he took the wrong elevator.

Among the dead were a police officer, a security guard, and two companies in the companies in the building. The American Football Association employee was seriously injured but survived.

In a note of three pages found in his wallet, Tamura said that he suffers from chronic painful paintings-in return for diagnosis until after death-called those who found him: “mental study.”

“No justification”, the US Football Association responds

Among his grievances against the American Football Association was the claim that the league put his profits before the player’s safety by hiding CTE and football, which could cause it.

A spokesman for the US Football Association said in response to the results. As the medical examiner notes, “science continues about this condition in development, and CTE’s physical and mental appearances remain under study. “

Brain disease affects the brain areas involved in regulating behavior and emotions. It has been linked to concussion and other head shocks associated with distinguished sports, with evidence of the disease in both professional and secondary athletes.

After more than a decade of denial, the US Football Association admitted the relationship between football and CTE in 2016 against Congress, and has so far paid more than $ 1.4 billion to retired players to settled for concussion demands.

Tamura played football in high school in California a decade ago, but she did not play in the American Football Association.

Police said that Tamura had a history of mental illness. In September 2023, he was arrested on charges of misdemeanor on the property of others after he was asked to leave the Las Vegas casino on the suburbs and is moved when his identity was requested. Prosecutors later rejected the case.