NYC gunman who shot 4 dead was son of ex-LAPD officer: Police

NEW YORK (WPIX) — The gunman who killed 4 radical successful a New York City shooting Monday was the lad of a erstwhile Los Angeles Police Department officer, according to a spokesperson for the NYPD.

Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, walked into a Midtown, Manhattan skyscraper connected Monday and opened fire, constabulary said.

Tamura was looking for the NFL offices earlier shooting the victims earlier taking his ain life, authorities said.

NYPD investigators arrived successful Las Vegas connected Tuesday greeting and spoke to radical whom they identified arsenic his relatives. Investigators accidental his begetter was spoken to, and different members of Tamura's household are being "cooperative."

Police said Tamura had a past of intelligence illness, and a enactment recovered connected his assemblage suggested that helium had a grievance against the NFL implicit a assertion that helium suffered from a degenerative encephalon disease that tin beryllium diagnosed lone by examining the encephalon aft a idiosyncratic dies.

The four victims killed by Tamura person been identified arsenic an NYPD officer, a Blackstone executive, a information guard, and a Rudin Management employee.