Manhattan shooting suspect’s brain to be tested for CTE

The caller calamity successful Manhattan continues to shingle the public. In an bureau gathering astatine 345 Park Avenue, a 27-year-old gunman, Shane Tamura, killed 4 radical and past took his ain life. What makes this lawsuit adjacent much bizarre is the farewell connection helium near behind.

It states that helium suspects chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative encephalon illness often associated with erstwhile American shot players. The illness tin lone beryllium confirmed aft death, truthful forensic experts from New York confirmed that it volition instrumentality respective weeks to cognize if helium truly suffered from it.

Process and dilemmas

"The investigating process tin instrumentality a week oregon two," said neurologist Brent Meizel, committee subordinate of the Brain Injury Association of America. 

"So there's not going to beryllium an instant reply to that."

Investigators judge the people of this onslaught was the NFL headquarters. However, owed to a responsibility successful the elevator, the attacker did not scope the desired floor. 

Job

According to constabulary information, helium worked successful a casino successful Las Vegas, and successful his younker played precocious schoolhouse shot successful California. He ne'er played successful the NFL, but they accidental helium had intelligence wellness issues.

A connection was besides recovered successful his wallet successful which helium repeatedly apologizes and asks for his encephalon to beryllium studied. "I privation it to beryllium known if I person CTE," the farewell enactment said.

When asked if the encephalon volition beryllium tested, New York City Mayor Eric Adams told CNN that a forensic pathologist volition marque that decision. The city's main aesculapian examiner's bureau told ESPN that "a neuropathological introspection of the encephalon is portion of a implicit autopsy."

"Additional tests for implicit autopsy documentation... are ongoing," the bureau added, without revealing erstwhile the process would beryllium completed.

However, experts pass that, careless of the result of the findings, shootings should not beryllium automatically linked to CTE disease.