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Manhattan Mass Shooter Blamed Brain Damage Linked to Football | Crime Alert 6AM 07.30.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: The gunman who killed four people in a midtown Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: office tower left a suicide note that said study my
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  Speaker 1: brain please, and ended with I'm sorry. He blamed chronic
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  Speaker 1: traumatic encephalopathy CTE, the brain disease linked to repeated head injuries.
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  Speaker 1: He said he had played football in high school and
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  Speaker 1: named the NFL in the note. Police identified the shooter
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  Speaker 1: as twenty seven year old Shane Devin Tama. On Monday evening,
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  Speaker 1: just before six point thirty, he double parked a black
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  Speaker 1: BMW on Park Avenue between fifty first and fifty second Streets.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance videos showed him stepping out with an M four
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  Speaker 1: style rifle and walking into three forty five Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: In the lobby, he opened fire. His first target was
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  Speaker 1: a uniformed NYPD officer working security. Thirty six year old
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  Speaker 1: Didol Islam had served four years with the forty seventh
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  Speaker 1: Precinct In the Bronx, he was working a paid detail.
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  Speaker 1: He had a pregnant wife and two young sons. Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams called him a true blue New Yorker and
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  Speaker 1: said quote he was doing what he does best saving
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  Speaker 1: lives and protecting New Yorkers. Tamera then shot a woman
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  Speaker 1: hiding behind a pillar. He kept firing through the lobby.
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  Speaker 1: He shot forty six year old security guard a land
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  Speaker 1: At Tienne and wounded another man. Then he waited for
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  Speaker 1: an elevator. He let one woman walk past without harm.
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  Speaker 1: He rode up to the thirty third floor and kept shooting. There.
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  Speaker 1: He killed two more people, forty three year old Blackstone
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  Speaker 1: executive Wesley Lapanter and twenty seven year old Julia Hyman
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  Speaker 1: of Roudent Management. One more man was critically hurt. The
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  Speaker 1: building also houses the NFL and KPMG. Unknown if he
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  Speaker 1: was there because of the NFL, as mentioned in his
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  Speaker 1: suicide note to Mara then shot himself in the chest.
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  Speaker 1: Police found his car nearby. Inside they found a rifle case,
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  Speaker 1: a loaded revolver, ammunition, a backpack, and prescription medication. Tamara
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  Speaker 1: had worked surveillance at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. Caesar's Entertainment
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  Speaker 1: confirmed his employment and said quote, our thoughts are with
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  Speaker 1: the victims, their families, and all of those affected by
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  Speaker 1: this tragic event. Police said he had a known history
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  Speaker 1: of mental illness. ABC seven reported he was placed on
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric holds in Nevada in twenty twenty two and twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish said he had a documented mental
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  Speaker 1: health history. His motive remains unclear. More crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Sean Diddy Combs is asking a federal
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  Speaker 1: judge to let him out of jail before his October
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  Speaker 1: third sentencing, arguing that no other John has ever been
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  Speaker 1: treated like this. Combs was found not guilty earlier this
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  Speaker 1: month on the most serious charges tied to his drug
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  Speaker 1: fueled freak offs. He was convicted on two lesser charges
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  Speaker 1: for interstate prostitution. He now faces two to five years.
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  Speaker 1: Judge A. Run Subramanian ruled that Combs would stay in
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  Speaker 1: jail until sentencing, citing his past domestic violence. On Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Comb's legal team filed a new request. They said no
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  Speaker 1: one else accused of hiring sex workers has been jailed
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  Speaker 1: before sentencing. His lawyer, Mark Agnifilo wrote, quote, Shawn Combs
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  Speaker 1: should not be incarcerated for his behavior. The defense argues
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  Speaker 1: that pre sentencing jail is meant for those who run
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  Speaker 1: prostitution rings, not for someone who simply hired sex workers.
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  Speaker 1: They say this case is unlike any other since federal
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  Speaker 1: prostitution laws were passed. Comb's lawyers said, quote, mister Combs
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  Speaker 1: is locked up while everyone else involved in the same activity,
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  Speaker 1: including his girlfriend, friends, the sex workers, the agency leaders,
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  Speaker 1: and adult film stars, remain free. His team says he
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  Speaker 1: is not a flight risk and will not pose harm
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  Speaker 1: to anyone. They offer strict terms for release, including a
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollar bond and limits on travel. Agnafillo said quote,
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  Speaker 1: the jury restored his life, and he will not waste
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  Speaker 1: his second chance, nor will he do anything to further
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  Speaker 1: risk his seven children being without a father, or four
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  Speaker 1: of them losing a parent entirely. A violent is on
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  Speaker 1: the run in New Orleans after jail staff mistakenly released
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  Speaker 1: him from the same facility where ten inmates escaped in May.
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  Speaker 1: Khalil Bryan, age thirty, was let out of the Orleans
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  Speaker 1: Justice Center early Friday. Deputies mixed him up with another
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  Speaker 1: inmate who had a similar last name. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: Brian was being held on a one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: bench warrant. He faces felony charges and has another active
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  Speaker 1: warrant in Jefferson Parish. That charge involved ramming police cars
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  Speaker 1: during a twenty twenty three police chase. Orleans Parish Sheriff
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  Speaker 1: Susan Hudson took the blame at a press conference. Hudson said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: it was a failure of internal processes and as a sheriff,
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  Speaker 1: I take full responsibility. The mistake happened around one am,
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  Speaker 1: but the public was not warned until more than fifteen
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  Speaker 1: hours later, when a citywide alert went out at four
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm. Hudson says an internal review is under way.
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  Speaker 1: Brian has a long criminal record. He pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 1: armed robbery in twenty fourteen. He's also been charged with
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  Speaker 1: home invasion, child endangerment, drug crimes, and agriv assault with
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  Speaker 1: a firearm. Officials say he is dangerous and should not
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  Speaker 1: be approached. Tipsters can call crime Stoppers at eight seven
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  Speaker 1: seven nine oh three. Stop. You do not have to
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  Speaker 1: give your name, and a reward may be offered. This
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  Speaker 1: mistaken release happened two months after a major jail break
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  Speaker 1: from the same facility. On May sixteenth, ten inmates escaped
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  Speaker 1: in a planned breakout, getting help from a jail worker
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  Speaker 1: and taking advantage of poor patrols. The men removed a
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  Speaker 1: toilet and sink, cut through metal bars, and crawled out
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  Speaker 1: through a hole in the wall. They ditched their uniforms,
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  Speaker 1: climbed over a wall, and ran across Interstate ten. One
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  Speaker 1: guard had left his post. The escape was not noticed
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  Speaker 1: until a head count seven hours later. Nine of the
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  Speaker 1: ten fugitives have since been caught. Derek Groves remains on
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  Speaker 1: the run. A dozen people have been arrested for helping
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  Speaker 1: with the escape or hiding the fugitives. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Drew Nelson.