In a video message, Tisch said Tamura left a suicide note and claimed to be suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), possibly from playing high school football. Tamura also blamed the NFL and asked that his brain be studied for signs of the degenerative disease.

Shane Tamura, the Park Ave. gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three others before taking his own life, left behind a suicide note saying he suffered from CTE, a brain injury often linked to playing football, and was targeting the NFL — but took the wrong elevator, officials said Tuesday.

More than a decade before he turned a Midtown NYC office building into a killing ground, Shane Tamura stood out as a rising star on a high school gridiron. Police believe the 27-year-old shooter’s obsession with CTE,