LAS VEGAS — The gunman who killed four people before taking his own life in a midtown Manhattan office building that houses the NFL's headquarters had for years sought medical help for frequent, debilitating headaches — including receiving injections in the back of his head, a person close to the man's family told ESPN.
Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas casino worker, had regularly met with doctors, including a neurologist, and received yearly MRI exams and various treatments seeking to diagnose the cause and stop the pain, said the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Tamura began having headaches while he was playing high school football in Southern California, the source said, and they continued into adulthood. Tamura took acetaminophen or ibuprofen, the source said, but soon after moving to Las Vegas in 2019 searched for more help. Doctors prescribed various medications for Tamura to try to find groupings that could offer relief, the source said.
«As it got worse and worse,» the source said, «it was like, 'OK, I have to get doctors' help now.'»
Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed in the shooting, and an NFL employee was seriously injured. The source close to the family told ESPN that Tamura's immediate family is grieving, «especially for the innocent lives that are lost.»
In the week after the shooting, while funerals were being held in New York for the victims and law enforcement authorities in Las Vegas were executing search warrants, details emerged about Tamura — his years playing football at two Los Angeles-area high schools, his history with mental health, his time with a private security firm, working a surveillance job in a Las Vegas casino and a run-in
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