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(NewsNation) — Police are questioning an subordinate who helped a gunman get firearm parts utilized successful a shooting Monday successful New York City that near 4 radical dead, including a constabulary officer, authorities said.
The gunman assembled an AR-15 benignant rifle "using a little receiver purchased by the associate," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Investigators person located and are questioning the idiosyncratic astir the purchase.
Shane Devon Tamura, 27, drove from Las Vegas to New York City and opened occurrence successful a Manhattan high-rise gathering earlier sidesplitting himself. The shooting claimed the lives of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam and 3 others.
Tamura had a past of intelligence unwellness and played precocious schoolhouse shot successful Southern California. His three-page suicide note referenced CTE and contained what officials described arsenic "CTE facts."
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry told NewsNation detectives person been sent to Las Vegas to assistance with hunt warrants and interviews. The probe involves the NYPD, Las Vegas constabulary and national partners.
Tisch said that 2 groups of detectives are connected their mode to Las Vegas to behaviour interviews and execute a hunt astatine Tamura’s home.
The officers volition besides sojourn the weapon store wherever helium legally purchased a revolver connected June 12 utilizing a Nevada concealed transportation permit, she said.
The slain serviceman leaves down a woman who is 8 months large and 2 young children. The officer's begetter was hospitalized aft learning of his son's death, telling the politician done a translator, "He's my lone son."
NYC gunman blamed the NFL, wanted encephalon studied
Mayor Eric Adams said Tamura near a termination enactment claiming helium had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a encephalon illness linked to caput injuries from interaction sports. The gunman blamed the NFL and intended to people the league's office successful the building.
"The enactment was recovered connected the suspect, helium stated helium had CTE, a encephalon wounded known for those who played interaction sports of immoderate nature. And helium seemed to person blamed the NFL," Adams said. "The NFL office was located successful the building. And helium mistakenly went up the incorrect elevator banks."
The politician said Tamura changeable himself successful the chest, seemingly to sphere his encephalon for research. The city's aesculapian examiner volition analyse the gunman's encephalon arsenic portion of the autopsy.
How did the shooting unfold?
Security cameras captured Tamura stepping retired of a achromatic BMW and walking into the high-rise gathering carrying an AR-15 benignant rifle. He changeable and killed the constabulary serviceman and 2 different radical successful the lobby earlier taking an elevator.
A pistillate stepped disconnected the elevator arsenic Tamura was getting on, and helium allowed her to locomotion away. He past went to the 33rd floor, location of Rudin Management, wherever helium killed different idiosyncratic earlier taking his ain life.
NewsNation's Steph Whiteside, Patrick Djordjevic and Brittney Donovan contributed to this report.
